Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil Quotes

• After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Country, Positive

  Tags in past

• I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Important, Kind

• And I’m in favor of that because I have a gay son, who’s a very successful theater designer.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Gay, Son

• But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Everything, Mean

• Also, when I didn’t like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Opinion

• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can’t think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Better

• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Nation, Television

• I’m happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it’s necessary.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Opinion, Necessary

• Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Mind, Parents

• The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Greatest, Able

• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we’ll go back there this summer.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, Last

• Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Come, Through

• You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Manners

• I never wanted to be a pundit.

  Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil (14)

Birth:	19th January, 1931
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist

About

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.

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