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• My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

  Paula Ann Zahn

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• I’m a lousy journalist.

  Judith Rossner

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• A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

  Stieg Larsson

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• If I wasn’t going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn’t have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

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• I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

  Charlayne Hunter Gault

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• I’m not a journalist; I’m a poet.

  Werner Herzog

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• I write as well as I can. I’m a journalist at heart, so it’s the story that matters.

  Robert Harris

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• I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

  Robert Harris

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• No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don’t parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

  Tom Hanks

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• A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

  Todor Zhivkov

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you’re a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you’re a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you’re going to get at it. Acting’s no different.

  Tom Sizemore

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• I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He’s terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

  David Shuster

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• Amnesty, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

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• Journalists and citizens in defense of the right to freedom of information.

  Pavel Durov

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

  William Feather

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

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• An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• I get a fine warm feeling when I’m doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let’s face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  Russell Banks

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