Reporters Quotes - Page 19

• Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

  Tom Barbash

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

  Peter Jacobson

  Father, Roles, News

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.

  Chris Hedges

  New York, People, Important

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind of a free hand. The kind of work that I wanted to do, most of the other reporters didn't want to do. I was not doing lunch. I was not sucking up to officials. I was writing from the street.

  Chris Hedges

  New York, Writing, Hands

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Interviews, Aspect, Term

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Years, Earthquakes, California

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• I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.

  Snoop Dogg

  Party, Men, Ties

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.

  Jill Douglas

  Jobs, College, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

  Jackie Kennedy

  College, Kind, Newspapers

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• Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

  Jackie Kennedy

  World, Tickets, Seems

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• I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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• I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Years, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Experts, Circumstances, Maxims

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• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  Witold Walczak

  Historical, Records, Needed

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• I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Editors, Missing

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.297, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

  Bob Schieffer

  Growing Up, Television, Literature

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• I used to be a print reporter.

  Bob Schieffer

  Literature, Used, Print

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• [Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Issues, People

  "Woodward, a Bush Tool? Remember How Clinton-Friendly He Was" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. October 1, 2006.

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• The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Fall, Hair

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• Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

  Cal Thomas

  Believe, Atheism, Might

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• Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Yeah

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• Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

  Michael Wilbon

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

  Michael Connelly

  Inspiration, Long, Looks

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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