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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."
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"I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis."
"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
"The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it."
"I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad."
"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
"One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life."
"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
"Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to."
"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
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