"I make friends faster and easier than journalists."
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"My comments are reserved for reputable journalists."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is."
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"History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect."
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"I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do."
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"Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda."
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"Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it."
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"You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists."
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"Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother."
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"I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story."
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"I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world."
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"Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication."
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"As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf."
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"A journalist is a reporter out of a job."
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"There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be."
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"I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me."
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"And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse."
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"For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth."
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"Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves."
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