Quotes about Reporter

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color! Votes: 3

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music. Votes: 3

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. Votes: 3

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. Votes: 3

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Votes: 3

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Votes: 3

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. Votes: 3

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there. Votes: 3

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him. Votes: 3

I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people. Votes: 3

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work. Votes: 3

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. Votes: 2

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. Votes: 1

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence. Votes: 1

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. Votes: 1

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. Votes: 1

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. Votes: 1

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. Votes: 1

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? Votes: 1

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. Votes: 1

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink. Votes: 1

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. Votes: 1

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? Votes: 1

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. Votes: 1

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' Votes: 1

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. Votes: 1

I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions. Votes: 1

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. Votes: 1

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. Votes: 1

It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter. Votes: 1

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law. Votes: 1

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. Votes: 1

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting. Votes: 1

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk. Votes: 1

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. Votes: 1

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.' Votes: 1

I started as a print reporter. Votes: 0

A reporter shoots first, aims later. Votes: 0

I used to be a print reporter. Votes: 0

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. Votes: 0

I never knew what a reporter looked like. Votes: 0

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. Votes: 0

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning. Votes: 0

Is it against the law to kill a reporter? Votes: 0

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life. Votes: 0

A journalist is a reporter out of a job. Votes: 0

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism. Votes: 0

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter. Votes: 0

A reporter is no better than his source of information. Votes: 0

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter. Votes: 0

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter]. Votes: 0

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. Votes: 0

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter. Votes: 0

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. Votes: 0

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. Votes: 0

Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter! Votes: 0

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter. Votes: 0

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. Votes: 0

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. Votes: 0

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. Votes: 0

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. Votes: 0

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. Votes: 0

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. Votes: 0

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize. Votes: 0

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed. Votes: 0

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down. Votes: 0

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal. Votes: 0

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. Votes: 0

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle. Votes: 0

I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice. Votes: 0

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero. Votes: 0

First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Votes: 0

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. Votes: 0

Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional. Votes: 0

I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream. Votes: 0

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. Votes: 0

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough. Votes: 0

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter. Votes: 0

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer. Votes: 0

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. Votes: 0

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven. Votes: 0

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism. Votes: 0

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue. Votes: 0

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article. Votes: 0

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. Votes: 0

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. Votes: 0

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter. Votes: 0

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. Votes: 0

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working. Votes: 0

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. Votes: 0

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. Votes: 0

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things. Votes: 0

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would. Votes: 0

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. Votes: 0

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. Votes: 0

After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution Votes: 0

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator. Votes: 0

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Votes: 0

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. Votes: 0

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter. Votes: 0

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post. Votes: 0

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me. Votes: 0

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other. Votes: 0

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper. Votes: 0

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. Votes: 0

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter. Votes: 0

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, Votes: 0

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter. Votes: 0

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. Votes: 0

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist. Votes: 0

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. Votes: 0

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played. Votes: 0

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person. Votes: 0

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician. Votes: 0

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell. Votes: 0

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. Votes: 0

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. Votes: 0

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood. Votes: 0

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing. Votes: 0

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source. Votes: 0

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status. Votes: 0

Joan Collins told a reporter that she hasn't had plastic surgery; come on... she's had more tucks than a motel bedsheet! Votes: 0

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects. Votes: 0

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! Votes: 0

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. Votes: 0

Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor.Harry Potter nerd.Whatever. Take the damn phone. Votes: 0

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done. Votes: 0

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. Votes: 0

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. Votes: 0

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. Votes: 0

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. Votes: 0

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me. Votes: 0

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. Votes: 0

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done. Votes: 0

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent. Votes: 0

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism. Votes: 0

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. Votes: 0

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security. Votes: 0

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?' Votes: 0

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved. Votes: 0

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo. Votes: 0

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics. Votes: 0

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last, Votes: 0

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth. Votes: 0

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. Votes: 0

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] was a magnificent witness. The reporter, when asking me about his testimony, said, "Sessions gushed about his testimony." But it was remarkable. Votes: 0

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful. Votes: 0

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite. Votes: 0

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts. Votes: 0

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality. Votes: 0

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact. Votes: 0

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly. Votes: 0

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are. Votes: 0

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick. Votes: 0

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print. Votes: 0

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly, Votes: 0

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay. Votes: 0

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution. Votes: 0

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter. Votes: 0

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all. Votes: 0

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. Votes: 0

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. Votes: 0

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.' Votes: 0

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City. Votes: 0

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. Votes: 0

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along. Votes: 0

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story Votes: 0

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. Votes: 0

While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter. Votes: 0

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. Votes: 0

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter. Votes: 0

We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television. Votes: 0

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be. Votes: 0

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team. Votes: 0

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit. Votes: 0

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. Votes: 0

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me. Votes: 0

He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917". Votes: 0

I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. Votes: 0

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical. Votes: 0

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?" Votes: 0

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter. Votes: 0

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. Votes: 0

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action. Votes: 0

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it. Votes: 0

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity. Votes: 0

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. Votes: 0

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. Votes: 0

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm Votes: 0

NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now. Votes: 0

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. Votes: 0

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.' Votes: 0

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side. Votes: 0

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed. Votes: 0

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist. Votes: 0

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. Votes: 0

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition. Votes: 0

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years. Votes: 0

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal. Votes: 0

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter. Votes: 0

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter. Votes: 0

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. Votes: 0

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio Votes: 0

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. Votes: 0

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. Votes: 0

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again. Votes: 0

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit. Votes: 0

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. Votes: 0

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford. Votes: 0

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium. Votes: 0

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"... Votes: 0

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive. Votes: 0

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. Votes: 0

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. Votes: 0

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts. Votes: 0

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?' Votes: 0

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. Votes: 0