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I don't want to be cosy with the guy who I know isn't saying the truth to the viewer.
- Emily Maitlis
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#Saying
#Truth
#Want
#Who
The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly religious term, I know, for a man who doesn't have much truck with religion, but it was the serenity of that time that will stay with me most.
- Emily Maitlis
#Life
#Man
#Religion
#Serenity
#Time
I love a daily deadline.
- Emily Maitlis
#Daily
#Deadline
#I Love
#Love
I did everything the wrong way round. I started in an odd place, with the wrong skill set and arguably worked backwards. I began my television career in Hong Kong, making longer format films from around Asia, then I went to the other extreme - presenting local London news.
- Emily Maitlis
#News
#Place
#Skill
#Television
#Way
I think 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 and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.
- Emily Maitlis
#Air
#Extraordinary
#Position
#True
#Us
Women often seem to have a fear of being 'found out'. Of thinking they've pulled the wool over their boss's eyes to get a job they don't deserve. I thought like that for years - but I'm massively over it now.
- Emily Maitlis
#Boss
#Eyes
#Fear
#Thinking
#Women
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
#Dress
#Red
#Remember
#Silver
#Street
Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.
- Emily Maitlis
#Interviews
#Test
#Up
#Wind
#Your
I hear some horror stories from other channels, and I think what a blessing to work with a team of people that you're genuinely happy to hang with. I don't feel I need to dominate 'Newsnight.'
- Emily Maitlis
#Blessing
#Feel
#Happy
#People
#Work
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
- Emily Maitlis
#Back
#Distance
#High Heels
#Long
#Work
The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.
- Emily Maitlis
#Enjoy
#People
#Script
#Stick
#Who
A friend and me took the slowboat from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1993.
- Emily Maitlis
#Friend
#Hong Kong
#Me
#Shanghai
#Took
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
#Down
#Job
#Politics
#Why
#Work
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
#Media
#Next Time
#Next
#People
#Time
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
#Communication
#Hope
#Power
#Somewhere
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