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I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 20
Died: 2004
Died: March 30
Journalist
Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Writer
Salford
Greater Manchester
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Pictures
Radio
Better

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They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
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I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
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Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.
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It's an acting job - acting natural.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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