Reporters Quotes - Page 6

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

Chuck Klosterman

Party, Past, Years

Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.

Jeff Lindsay

Hard Work, Thinking, Hair

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No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Barbara Kingsolver

Buttons, Stories, Facts

Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.376, Faber & Faber

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Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mind, Asking, Answers

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Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always".

Mira Grant

Stories, Tabloids, Lasts

Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.268, Hachette UK

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Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

J. K. Rowling

Ghouls, Wife, Clear

J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

Iain Pears

Jobs, Years, Civilization

Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

Barbara Kingsolver

Heart, Order, Black

Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.271, Faber & Faber

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But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

Michael Pollan

Editors, Careers, Tree

Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.17, Penguin

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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Walter Isaacson

Jobs, Telephones, Done

Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

John Lennon

Color

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But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

Suzanne Collins

Cutting, Wings, Flash

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.694, Scholastic Inc.

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Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.

Darrell Issa

Class, Support, Pathways

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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

Anton Chekhov

Honesty, Giving, Justice

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Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

Andy Rooney

Christian, Atheist, Religion

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I got rid of all those reporters.

Myrna Loy

Drinking

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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

Daniel Okrent

Hard Times, Dubious, Faces

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It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Funny, Military, Suffering

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A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."

Gregg Popovich

Basketball, Next, Kind

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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

Anderson Cooper

Kissing, Power, Anchors

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Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl. Currently, I love a certain girl. I really love this girl too much. She is a person who finds happiness and joy in small things, when i'm with her, I'm always happy. She is also a person who told me how happiness felt like. Because of this, Because of this, because i love this girl too much, because i want to protect this girl...I am getting a divorce.

Youngjae

Girl, Drama, Divorce

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The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Joseph Alsop

Truth, Men, Feet

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Secret, Crime

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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

Bo Jackson

Baseball, College, Men

Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

Sam Smith

Numbers, Democracy, Covering

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