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When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

Gwen Ifill

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Gwen Ifill
Age: 61 †
Born: 1955
Born: September 29
Died: 2016
Died: November 4
Journalist
News Presenter
Writer
New York City
New York
Gwendolyn Ifill
Gwendolyn L. Ifill
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Chance
Seconds
Someone
Presses
Press
Debate
Necessarily
Follow
Guy
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Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.
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Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
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I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.
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