Journalist Quotes

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

I was a bad journalist.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

I am a journalist.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.