Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Fiona Bruce
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.
Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that's the job I knew I wanted to do.
The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.
To me it's always been a no-brainer. Maybe I'm just simplistic about it, but if you believe in equality of opportunity, and want to champion equality of opportunity, that makes you a feminist.
Family is the priority. Your job never loves you back, that's the way I look at it.
I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.
I still remember watching 'Antiques Roadshow' as a child with my parents, on a Sunday night, sitting in our 1970s living room.
If I want to watch things I'm on, I end up watching on my own.
I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.
If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.
I don't particularly like being told what to do.
I'm always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.
Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been elevated to the status of a national pastime.
The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.
My father was MD of Unilever, so we followed him around the world.
In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.
No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain't up to much, I won't enjoy myself.
Well, not everyone wants to lead the kind of life I lead.
I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.
I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.
I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.
I haven't done Botox. Although there are a few women on screen who do, and if you don't do it, which I don't, you look pretty rough by comparison.
Think Oman, and you think desert. But what we found was mile after mile of barren, spiky rubble, cliffs of jutting sharp rocks, unrelieved by a single piece of vegetation or water. We drove for hours across what felt like the surface of the moon. We saw goats foraging but couldn't work out what they could possibly be eating.
I am a simple soul.
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the self.
There are a million and one things I'd love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I'd love to become a magistrate.
I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.
If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it.
Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'
I'm astonished at the freedom with which a depressingly large number of men feel they can just say what they want and write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women.
Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.
I'm not tough. I'm just not a retiring violet when it comes to airing my opinions.
As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.
The thing is, if you come on the 'Roadshow' we are not going to humiliate you. The thing about the 'Antiques Roadshow' is not to humiliate people.
I wasn't born into money, and you never know when that money's going to stop coming in.
Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.
I think it's important to rebel a little bit.
I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.
My Duke of Edinburgh interview for his 90th in June 2011 was not one of my successes. I knew what to expect: there were some very uncomfortable moments and put-downs, but I think it made for entertaining viewing.
Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.
The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.
My kids once said, 'What would you do if you hadn't got us?' I replied, 'I'd be more successful and I'd have more friends, but I wouldn't be as happy.'
Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.
I collect things called 'samplers' which are Victorian pieces of needlework usually done by children in a workhouse to show that they have a skill which can be used in service, stitching household linen or that kind of thing. I think they're very humble and very beautiful.
Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.
Most visitors to Iceland tend to spend just a few hours in Reykjavik before moving on to the geological wonders beyond. I think they are missing out.
Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!
If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.
Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.
I'm all for a passionate debate, and sometimes things can be heated, which is fine, up to a point. As long as we remember that we are human beings.
I've worked hard, but I've been lucky too.
I'd set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found it.
I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.
I'm quite famously frugal.
If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'
My own valuation moment: When I started 'Antiques Roadshow,' John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.
I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to build some energy in the room.' 'On Question Time,' the reverse is true. A lot of the time, I am just trying to not have it turn into a slanging match.
When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.
I'm used to doing a lot of live broadcasting.
With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.
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