Emily Maitlis Quotes
I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
The first time I went to the cinema was with my father. He was a huge fan of Peter Ustinov, so we went to see 'Death on the Nile' at the Hampstead Ionic.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I certainly don't want to be part of a media that forces confessions from people who are not going to behave any differently the next time round.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
My second TV assignment ever was to go to Cambodia to look at the state of the country in the dying days of the Khmer Rouge. I was naive, awkward, and not very good at writing to pictures.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
We're not robots. There isn't a perfect formula for an interview and there are days when you bring too much of you and there are days, quite honestly, when you don't bring enough of you.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
It's arguing, in a very good and positive way. It's sort of sitting down and pulling an argument apart. I think that's a very oddly Jewish thing. And it's the chaos of family and a slight sort of cosy messiness of it all.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I am addicted to the highlighter pen, my papers generally a garish mix of type, Biro, unreadable scribble and lashings of luminosity, as if they belong to the unhinged.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I remember the Silver Jubilee clearly because we had a fancy dress street party in Sheffield. I dressed up as a Japanese girl with a too-big red kimono - cultural appropriation hadn't been invented in 1977. I was six.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
It is the little things that throw me - the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I need my knees to rest notes on.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I don't think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It's about why something won't work, which I think is valuable, but it's not always constructive.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
Always come to a conversation armed with two drinks. Then if it's dire you can pretend you were on the way to find someone else. And if it's interesting, you can stay and down both glasses without moving.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at the wrong time, or the guest you wanted gets into the wrong taxi and doesn't show up.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they?
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe, then sun and wave technology would now be at the forefront, not the old fossil fuels.
Emily Maitlis
British journalist
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