I didn't GO to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I LIVED in books. I really was an OBSERVER of LIFE.

Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous PRIVILEGE and responsibility, LEADING a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for OUTSTANDING REPORTING, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

As editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', my job is to ensure that our independent journalism continues to be ENJOYED by as many READERS as possible and that our print newspapers MAKE a positive financial CONTRIBUTION to securing a SUSTAINABLE future.

It is not POSSIBLE to completely ELIMINATE mediation between you as an OBSERVER and the history you are TRYING to understand.

Language is not merely a SET of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a TOTAL coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with BEHAVIOR, context, UNIVERSE of discourse, and OBSERVER perspective.

I'm very MUCH an OBSERVER and a conduit of THOUGHTS and IDEAS.

A FAIR OBSERVER only has to ASK: If there is VIOLENCE, who PROFITS?

I'm DEFINITELY an OBSERVER of HUMAN BEHAVIOR. I ALWAYS have been.

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial TASKS of narration and argument and TONE have been ENTRUSTED, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek TRAGEDY. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate OBSERVER of life.

I write and film history; I don't MAKE it. One can be a good CRITIC and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a FILMMAKER.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. OPERATIONS over the YEARS. I was a U.N. OBSERVER at the EAST Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a LONG time.

I THINK I was just BORN like that, a personality trait. I'm an OBSERVER.

I get to pick so many things as an ACTOR. Also, I'm a GOOD observer of PEOPLE and their mannerisms.

I thought of myself as an outsider in a LOT of ways as I was GROWING up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often FIND myself THINKING as an observer of science FICTION rather than as a participant.

There is a CERTAIN kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of DIGNITY with which you comport yourself. As an OBSERVER of the presidency, I have to wonder if Trump would FOLLOW that pattern.