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• An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

  Tori Amos

  Laughing, Half, Mouths

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• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Hate, Band

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• I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

  David Bailey

  Lying, Past, Responsible

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• Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

  David Bailey

  Clear

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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• Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

  Tyra Banks

  Firsts, Shows, Seasons

  "Tyra Banks: Success as Fashion Model and Businesswoman Make Her a Role Model as Well". Jet Magazine (p. 63), October 2006.

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• The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

  Juliette Binoche

  Good Friend, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Juliette Binoche: 'These tabloid stories, it feels like being in a bad soap opera'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Calling, Journalism, Mistaken

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• I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Easier, Faster

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Cnn, Pushing

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Dad, Eight, Years

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• While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

  Carol Burnett

  Growing Up, Want, Astute

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• There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Littles, Requirements

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 23, 2005.

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• I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.

  Graydon Carter

  Party, Thinking, America

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• Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, People, Wish

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• Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

  Linda Chavez

  Military, Lasts, Republican

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• My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

  George Clooney

  Father, Smart, College

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Writing, Rocks

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• Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

  Leonard Cohen

  Three, Chords, Said

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• However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.

  Joan Collins

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

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• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  Daniel Craig

  Crazy, Hero, People

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• The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

  Stockwell Day

  Trying, Typical, Stories

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• I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

  Cameron Diaz

  Dad, Matter, Cigar

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