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Ian Hislop Quotes
Ian Hislop Quotes
Ian Hislop
Welsh
Editor
Born:
Jul 13
,
1960
About
Everyone
Got
People
Think
You
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
You
Win
Job
Down
Think
Worthwhile
Accept
Huge
Huge Amount
Friends
Very
Quite
Certainly
Deep
Deep Down
Enjoyable
Amount
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
Ian Hislop
People
World
Internet
About
Rather
More
Throwing
Journalism
Over
Know
Well
Another
Makes
Up
Very
Getting
Screen
Stories
After
Which
Useful
Less
Bars
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
Ian Hislop
People
Will
Unless
Say
Only
Prevent
Write
Put
Wrong
True
Well
Go
May
Stories
Them
Then
Convinced
Who
Injunction
Publication
By The People
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
Time
Worth
Engineer
Thought
Long
Long Time
Changed
Civil
Admit
Seemed
Only
Had
Wrong
Read
Course
Sciences
Doing
Subjects
Want
The Only Thing
Then
Should
Chose
Thing
Start
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
Life
Funny
Woman
Mother
My Life
Clever
Gone
Force
Terrific
Verbal
Witty
Very
Done
Should
University
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
Ian Hislop
Politics
Religious
Eccentric
Longer
Acceptable
Fat
British
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
Ian Hislop
You
Cloud
Everyone
Until
Understand
Mourning
Grieving
England
Twenties
Nearly
Appreciate
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
Ian Hislop
Good
People
Amazing
Old
Films
Incredibly
Tell
Telly
About
Like
Well
Because
Making
Stories
Old People
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
Ian Hislop
You
People
Telly
Lifestyle
Sort
Got
Fame
Very
Expect
Being
Mean
Based
Peculiar
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