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Quotes About Reporter

Young Charles Dickens started out as a court reporter, and scholars believe that this experience formed the sense of the human drama evident in his novels. Besides which, those novels are nearly all about crimes, mainly of the white-collar type.
~ Michael Gruber
Timothy Leary, always happy to supply a reporter with a delectably outrageous quote, was famous. He delivered a particularly choice one after the university forced him to put his supply of Sandoz psilocybin pills under the control of Health Services: "Psychedelic drugs cause panic and temporary insanity in people who have not taken them.
~ Michael Pollan
I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.
~ Grace Phipps
I hung up, feeling distressed. Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilize the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states. There was no real management theory of the case or how to organize a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced. Beyond being a reporter, I was worried for the country.
~ Bob Woodward
Some observers, particularly Southerners, were critical of this show of force. "I have seen today such a sight as I could never have believed possible at the capital of my country," one Southern reporter wrote, "an inauguration of a President surrounded by armed soldiery, with loaded pieces and fixed bayonets." Another observer reported that the procession "seemed more like escorting a prisoner to his doom than a President to his inauguration.
~ Brad Meltzer
What about some kind of an ancient curse?'' Ancient Curse Kills Two. He could see the headlines now. ''Don't be an asshole.'' The reporter snatched the microphone to safety just in time and, smiling pleasantly, asked, '' Can I quote you on that, Detective?'' Celluci's smile was just as sincere. ''You can tattoo it on your chest.
~ Tanya Huff
The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed.
~ Julien Green
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.
~ Junior Seau
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.
~ Edward R. Murrow
I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte..
~ Ari Melber
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.
~ Claire Tomalin
'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.
~ Robert Osborne
At a Trump rally after the election, a reporter spotted a pair of Republicans wearing shirts that read, I'D RATHER BE A RUSSIAN THAN A DEMOCRAT. Centuries before, George Washington, riding out of thriving Philadelphia toward the lush hills of Mount Vernon, recognized what the failure of American democracy would look like. It looks like them.
~ Stephen Marche
NBC-TV affiliate as a news reporter and weekends emceeing shows at the Tanaka Institute, is staring at the digital clock on the dashboard, growing impatient.
~ Steve Alten
Bin Laden taunted them openly. He met near the Pakistan border in early June with Bakr Atiani, a reporter for a Saudi-owned satellite television network. "They said there would be attacks against American and Israeli facilities within the next several weeks
~ Steve Coll
A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a large nose, thin face and deep-set eyes, he looks like the kind of Harvard teaching assistant who carries a slide ruler strapped to his belt. But he is skillful with fragile egos, and also the perfect counterpoint to Bradlee. Bradlee is more like Woodward: he wants hard information first and is impatient with theories. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
~ Carl Bernstein
As a reporter, Brian Keyes had come to know B.D. Harper fairly well. There was nothing not to like; there simply was nothing much at all.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Already had one reporter worm her
~ Tess Gerritsen
My father was a journalist.
~ Daniel Snyder
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
~ Nanci Griffith
I am a journalist.
~ Jesse Jackson
I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
~ Karl Kraus
War reporter Lawrence Sheets's edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago. Refreshingly free of faraway theorizing, this book focuses on what people actually saw and experienced in those years.
~ Hugh Pope