Linda Ellerbee Quotes

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Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Linda Ellerbee
There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

Linda Ellerbee
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

Linda Ellerbee
When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

Linda Ellerbee
Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

Linda Ellerbee
I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Linda Ellerbee
If it was on TV, it must be so. Calendars were tricky and church bells might fool you, but if you heard Ed Sullivan's voice you knew it was Sunday night.

Linda Ellerbee
I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

Linda Ellerbee
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Linda Ellerbee
A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog grabbed it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling 'Hey, come back here with my breast!'

Linda Ellerbee
Co-dependence is taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

Linda Ellerbee
In television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

Linda Ellerbee
The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

Linda Ellerbee
It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Linda Ellerbee
Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth.

Linda Ellerbee
Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter—aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules—are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

Linda Ellerbee
When there is good news, and it is news, we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

Linda Ellerbee
What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope.' If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.'

Linda Ellerbee
I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties?

Linda Ellerbee
Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Linda Ellerbee