Morley Safer
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"Morley Safer" is a Canadian American reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He is best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, the cast of which he joined in December 1970, during the third season of the television series/series.

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In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get through that? I mean, how do you ever push that out of your mind?

Yes, it will. It absolutely will.

As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I want it,' and it got done. You can't do that now.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?

It's made a better man of you.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be kind of boring, no?

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.