Sarah Koenig Quotes

#1. You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

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#2. I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

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#3. I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

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#4. People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

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#5. I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

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#6. Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

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#7. It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

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#8. I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.

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#9. If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

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#10. I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

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#11. My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

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