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(13 votes)   The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Robert MacNeil
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(10 votes)   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 MacNeil
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(10 votes)   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 MacNeil
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(9 votes)   And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

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(8 votes)   We have determined to stay in New York City as our permanent home, because it seems to be the most interesting place in which to live as we get older.

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(7 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

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(6 votes)   I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

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(6 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   I never wanted to be a pundit.

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

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(7 votes)   Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

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(7 votes)   I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.

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(7 votes)   Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

Robert MacNeil
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