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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."
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"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."
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"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"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."
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"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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"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
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"Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered."
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"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."
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"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."
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