Quotes About Being A Reporter

#1. Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

Tom Barbash

#2. I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Kevin Cramer

#3. Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Charles Kuralt

#4. Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Jackie Kennedy

#5. Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions ... it's tough.

Junior Seau

#6. My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#7. Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job ... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

#8. I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Tom Stoppard

#9. I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.

Michael Connelly

#10. Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Allan Sloan

#11. Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

Anna Quindlen

#12. I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

Charlotte Arnold

#13. Mike tyson made a prolific quote that I will never forget. It came when he was being interviewed by a reporter about another boxers plan for an upcoming fight... Mike said, "Everyone has a plan until you get hit in the face.

Mike Tyson

#14. Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#15. The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Gay Talese

#16. I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

Daryn Kagan

#17. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Jill Abramson

#18. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Cracks Down On Subway Acrobats

Anonymous

#20. A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

#21. 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

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

Joe Pantoliano

#23. She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.
You're writing that down? Has the interview started?
Lee, whenever you're talking to a reporter, you're being interviewed.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#24. I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

H.L. Mencken

#25. Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Kim Cattrall

#26. We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#27. Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

Fred W. Friendly

#28. Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.

Paul Dini

#29. Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

David

#30. For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

#31. There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

Zac Goldsmith

#32. After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

John Travolta

#33. Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Thelonious Monk

#34. I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

James Sinegal

#35. I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

Walter Cronkite

#36. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far

D. Ross Campbell

#37. I never thought I would be a painter. That I might make a world and walk into it and forget myself. That art would be something I would not have any way of not doing.

Peter Heller

#38. We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place.

Patricia Calvert