"When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference."

-- Nina Blackwood

#Tonight Quotes #Entertainment Quotes #Emcee Quotes

“Honolulu is a melting pot.”
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
“Glamour doesnâ€™t just happen, people donâ€™t wake up in the morning glamorous.”
“The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!”
“I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.”
“How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe,”
“I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.”
“That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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