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“Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?”

Knows Want Photographer Reporters

Author:James Taylor

“People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.”

People Government Issues Reporters

Author:Calvin Trillin

“People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.”

People Giving Firsts Long Winning Answers Easier Reporters Cocky

Author:Ken Venturi

“Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.”

People Want Country Fairs Balanced Reporters Patriot Foxes

Author:Mike Wallace

“If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.”

Ifs Important Integrity Reporters Credibility

Author:Mike Wallace

“It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.”

Knows Way Feels Jobs Joy Reporters Astonishing

Author:Mike Wallace

“As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.”

“What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.”

Inspirational Has Beens Art Book Different Fine Internet Happenings Theater Dance Critics Disappear Driven Thrive Reporters Refugee Roger Fine Arts Reviewers Deforestation Movie Critic

Author:James Wolcott

“In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.”

Jobs Faces Order Courageous Reporters Fascists Harassment

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.”

Television Reporters Researchers

Author:Tom Wolfe

“A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.”

Government Literature Ability Secret Aspect Ties Reporters Confidentiality

Author:Bob Woodward

“I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.”

People Knows Night Fear Numbers Talking Gone Air Source Return Phones Posts Reporters Telephones Phone Calls

Author:Bob Woodward

“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.”

People Stories Wisdom Literature Television Reputation Conventional Reporters Analysts Conventional Wisdom Batting

Author:Bob Woodward

“In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'”

Said Kids Young Cities Car One Day Presses Newspapers Stealing Teenager Minors Reporters Pits Detectives Offenders Cubs Sergeants Limerick Courthouses

Author:Kevin Barry

“The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.”

People World Internet Cameras Access Digital Reporters Cnn Digital Cameras Internet Access

Author:Howard Rheingold

“She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.”

Writing Talking Interviews Reporters Notebook

Book:Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels

Source: Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels

“And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.”

Thinking Knows Want Children Lost Sound Cry Jew Israel Novelists Palestinian Reporters Lost Child

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.”

Writing Years Firsts Light Novel Circumstances Newspapers Village Candle Reporters Attempting Newspaper Reporters Candle Lights

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.”

Doe Real Opposites Cameras Genuine Reporters Something Real

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.”

Men Should Believe Has Beens Reason Lying Religion Courses Millions Atheism Miracle Our Time Skepticism Reporters

Author:Thomas Paine

“I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.”

Years Said Ideas Past Remember Party Ten Conversation Presses Dinner No Idea Friendly Reporters Attempting Describing Dinner Party

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

“It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.”

“No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.”

Facts Stories Buttons Reporters Good Story

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.”

“Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan)”

Knows Mind Wells Might Loses Answers Asking Reporters

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always".”

Stories Lasts Computer Stealing Mess Reporters Tabloids Ammo

Book:Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

“Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.”

Clear Wife Comment Reporters Ghouls Weasley

Book:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”

People World Trying Years Littles Made Matter Jobs Loses Sin Bears Civilization Late Happenings Years Ago Blame Contribution Too Late Reporters Nazi True You Willful Ignorance

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.”

Heart Order Black Breaths Bitter Permanent Bitterness Reporters Quarrels Moisture Bitter Words

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Company Careers Tree Boring Newspapers Guidance Editors Loser Reporters Definite Notable Nutritionist Newspaper Editors

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

Done Jobs Type Research Bells Reporters Telephones Market Research Macintosh Scoffing Graham Bell

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!”

Color Reporters

Author:John Lennon

“But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?”

Cutting Wings Flash Reporters Mockingjay

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.”

Years Crime Years Ago Organized Reporters Boston Covering Organized Crime

Author:Howie Carr

“As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.”

Information Mets Lawyer Revelations Editors Reporters Libel Queries

Author:Graydon Carter

“To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.”

Writing Wells Character Lying Artist Can Do Views Creative Talent Notes Limitation Range Reporters Creative Writers Deepest Sympathy

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.”

Jobs Gossip Reporters Respectable Spit

Author:Kim Cattrall

“Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.”

Class Millions Support Plans Citizens Program Immigration Alternatives Immigrants Illegal Reporters Citizenship Pathways Wednesday Immigration Reform Illegal Immigrants

Author:Darrell Issa

“I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.”

Reporters

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?”

Fighting Talking Doctors Hockey Rays Reporters Edmonton

Author:Rob Ray

“One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."”

Said Body Sides Arms Crosses Your Body One Time Reporters Gymnastics

Author:Albert Azaryan

“A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.”

Ifs Giving Wish Justice Pleasure Honest Honesty Reader Ordinary Newspapers Virtuous Reporters Entertainers Mayors Dealer Cosmetics Railroads Contractor Newspaper Reporters

Author:Anton Chekhov

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

Years Used Asks Cities Crazy Ask Me Reporters Drive Me Crazy

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.”

Knows Stories Christian Religion Audience Know How Atheism Scientist Atheist Mary Reporters Exclusive Moses Bakers Anti Religious Joseph Smith Always Alone Remote Places

Author:Andy Rooney

“I got rid of all those reporters.”

Drinking Reporters

Author:Myrna Loy

“That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.”

Firsts Hard Faces Asks Week Figures Tough Hard Times Reporters Suspicious Relentless Dubious Hard Questions

Author:Daniel Okrent

“It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.”

Funny Suffering Military Information Television Weak Radio Active Stations Accurate Reporters Accurate Information

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."”

Knows Kind Next Asks Basketball Ask Me Reporters Speculation

Author:Gregg Popovich

“The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.”

People Ifs World Made I Can Used Literature Power Special Tvs Kissing Careful Monsters Treated Reporters Anchors Kiss Of Death

Author:Anderson Cooper

“Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl. Currently, I love a certain girl. I really love this girl too much. She is a person who finds happiness and joy in small things, when i'm with her, I'm always happy. She is also a person who told me how happiness felt like. Because of this, Because of this, because i love this girl too much, because i want to protect this girl...I am getting a divorce.”

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