"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."

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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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"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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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."

Work

"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."

People

"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."

Interest

"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."

Thought

"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."

Media

"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."

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"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."

Time

"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."

Society

"The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me."

Time

"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."

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