Sir Trevor McDonald, OBEis a Trinidadian British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN... (wikipedia)
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.
I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.
I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
I don't know what pressures there are these days.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.
I love living in London.