Journalist Quotes - Page 4

• The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

  Larry King

  Secret, Curiosity, Absolutes

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• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  Daniel Bell

  Curiosity, Philosopher, Moments

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

  Ryan Murphy

  Three, Stories, Young

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• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Saws, Titles, Action

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

  Sara Blecher

  Eye, Artist, People

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Rooms, Four

  "Love & Other Drugs - Anne Hathaway interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, Cynical, News

  "State of Play - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.

  Glen Hansard

  Live Life, Writing, Thinking

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, House

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first bureau chiefs I think ever at the New York Times. Hearing these stories of how hard it was for her, and yet knowing how easy it is for me right now is just remarkable.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Mother, New York, Thinking

  "Women Directors Speak at Sundance". Interview with Peter Belsito, blogs.indiewire.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Able, Courageous, States

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• It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

  Steven Weinberg

  Technology, Medicine, Promise

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Artist, Trying, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.

  Laura Poitras

  Commitment, Government, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

  Fred Ritchin

  Perspective, Needs, Way

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• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Talent, Thousand, Just One

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• With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Mean, Careers

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• I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

  Charlotte Church

  Thinking, Shadow, Restaurants

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Vacuums

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• Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Children, World, Belief

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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