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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
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"I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera."
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"People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press."
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"I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not."
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"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
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"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
War

"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."
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"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."
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"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."
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"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
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"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."
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