Reporters Quotes - Page 3

• I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

  David Sedaris

  Treats, New Yorkers

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• But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

  David Sedaris

  Humorists

  "David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. Jun 21, 2009.

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• 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?

  Rob Ray

  Fighting, Hockey, Doctors

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

  Joe Pantoliano

  Oxymoron, Posts, Investigators

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• Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Writing, Light, Years

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• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Call Her Miss Ross : The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross". Book by J. Randy Taraborrelli, 1989.

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• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ideas, Calling, Want

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• 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.

  Judy Woodruff

  Long, Outcomes, Way

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• We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Judging, Facts, Behavior

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mike Wallace

  Integrity, Important, Credibility

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• Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

  Richard S. Salant

  Views, Stories, Point Of View

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• Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

  Tom Wolfe

  Television, Researchers

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• You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

  John Oliver

  Moral High Ground, Wells, Loses

  "John Oliver Skewers Roger Goodell, Says NFL Commish Has Lost Moral High Ground To TMZ" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• 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.

  Anderson Cooper

  Vote, Should, Always Believe

  "Anderson Cooper Comes Out Of The Closet: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. July 02, 2012.

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• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  Dana Milbank

  Gun, Law, Doubt

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• 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.

  Howie Carr

  Boston, Years, Covering

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• As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

  Graydon Carter

  Editors, Information, Lawyer

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• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, White, Giving

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• Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

  Jack Palance

  Jobs, War, Air

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• Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Should, Said

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• 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.

  Mike Wallace

  Jobs, Joy, Way

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• If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

  David Walton

  New York, Coats, Twisted

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• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Bob Woodward

  Wisdom, People, Stories

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