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"  The idea that I would try and copy Larry is ridiculous. Why would you do that? A, I&amp;#039;d lose by comparison because he&amp;#039;s such a legend. And B, it&amp;#039;s kind of insulting to myself. I have kind of an edge in me, which will be a little bit different for that time slot but probably necessary to combat the O&amp;#039;Reillys and so on who are making all the noise. I remember my first issue as editor of News of the World. I was only twenty-eight when Murdoch gave me the job. The staff was looking at me like, Is Murdoch with his mum? I prepared a great issue \u2014 Murdoch reaches me and I talk him through it. He loves it. But then just on deadline, a guy naked from the waist down, who painted his genitalia green, parascended onto the roof of Buckingham Palace. The staff comes to me. Boss, what are you going to do? I froze. Froze. A young guy, who I&amp;#039;ve got to be grateful to, piped up and said, &amp;quot;Boss, one question. How many times in your life do you think a bloke with green bollocks is going to fly onto the roof of Buckingham Palace? If the answer is never again, put it on the front page.&amp;quot; Murdoch was thrilled with the change. Murdoch is such a ferocious competitor. My desire to impress him as an opponent outweighs my desire to impress him when I was an employee. Half the battle with confidence is exuding it to other people even when you&amp;#039;re not really feeling it yourself. My accent can be an advantage and a disadvantage. It carries with it to many American ears a perceived assumption of a higher level of intelligence than often exists. But most Americans I know really like the British accent. They find it charming. You&amp;#039;ve got an emergency. Who would you call at four in the morning, knowing they would get out of bed and do whatever they could to help you? Those are your friends. That reduces your Christmas-card list a lot. Talk to Paris Hilton about business and her voice suddenly drops two octaves. The most powerful tool I&amp;#039;ve learned is silence. Sometimes the best question you could ask somebody on TV is &amp;quot;Why did you do that?&amp;quot; Kids puncture any form of adult pomposity. I&amp;#039;m as happy talking to the trash guy as I am to the president. My brother just went back for his third tour in the Middle East. He&amp;#039;ll e-mail me from east Kabul where he&amp;#039;s in a tent in 120 degree heat in a sandstorm and they&amp;#039;ve just been mortared for the third time. And you&amp;#039;re sitting there whining about the fact that your managing editor hasn&amp;#039;t put through your bill for your dinner at Per Se because you ordered the Ch\u00E2teau Lafite &amp;#039;52. Hey, get a life. You can only fuck up if you look yourself in the eye in the morning after you&amp;#039;ve done something and you know in your heart the reason you did it was completely against your gut instinct and principles. I don&amp;#039;t care if they&amp;#039;re dancing, singing, painting \u2014 eventually you run out of things to say after you&amp;#039;ve judged eleven pigs.  &amp;quot;How many times have you been properly in love?&amp;quot; is a great question.  As long as I&amp;#039;m right most of the time, I don&amp;#039;t mind the off time being an idiot. Everyone scratches on the back. Jon Stewart goes on Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly. Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly goes on Jon Stewart.  If you can combine misery with celebrity, you&amp;#039;ve got a number-one New York Times best seller. The thing about Bush 43 that I&amp;#039;ll say in his defense \u2014 you know, reprehensible though the Iraq war was in my view \u2014 is I believe that he genuinely believed in the reasons he was waging it. Whereas Tony Blair didn&amp;#039;t. That&amp;#039;s the difference. I enjoy watching Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly and Glenn Beck. I enjoy watching Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. I have great respect for all of them as television performers. Part of CNN&amp;#039;s problem is that it hasn&amp;#039;t been able to perform well enough on center ground. It has a lot to scream about. CNN right now is vitally important. The independent vote is crucial as America gets more and more partisan because of the screaming cable-news networks. It&amp;#039;s vital that CNN screams loudly from a position of nonpartisanship. If a lady gets up from the table, stand up. When she gets back, stand up. Manners make a man. Arrogance is a total lack of self-awareness. My dad only gave me two bits of advice. One was: Always be nice to police officers. Second was: Always drink the best French wine you can afford. It was brilliant advice. If you work really hard, you&amp;#039;ve got to have pleasures. And there&amp;#039;s no greater pleasure as you get older than a great glass of wine. You can measure success in red wine, but not white.  Interviewed on November 17, 2010 PLUS: Larry King&amp;#039;s Exit Interview &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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