Quotes from Shannon Bream

Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.

That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

I'm pretty religious about drinking between 60-to-70 ounces of water a day. I carry a big, refillable water bottle that I try to get through at least twice a day.

There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.

I'm not a big breakfast person, but I try to eat a little something on the mornings I'm going to work out.

Life will take you in all kinds of unexpected directions and it certainly did with me.

You have to know how to use your hair spray.

I was a bookish nerd.

The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he'd ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.

When you find yourself on a pageant stage, there are a lot of unpredictable moments, and I think a lot of that translates to doing the live, breaking-news reporting that I do now.

I have an ongoing fight with fast food.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

When I'm working out and eating healthily, it's easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.

Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over.

The days of waiting for your morning paper to show up in your driveway and tell you what the main stories are? Those days are over.

I have control of my recurrent corneal erosion, as opposed to it having control of me.