Jim McKay
Jim McKay
James Kenneth McManus, better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 September 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.
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There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
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On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who's from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who's been discouraged from speaking Spanish.
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On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
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I was going to be an English teacher.
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I guess I didn't worry too much about the six runs I gave up. I tried to redeem myself with those two home runs.
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
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Chris is one of the friendliest, nicest people you would meet anywhere. He likes people. He loves people. He's very forgiving about people even if anything happens in a bad way.
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Neither team really executed well tonight, but both sides played good defense. We just didn't execute well and it seemed like we got out of sync with doing the things we've done up to this point. I think some of that was nerves tonight.
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I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.