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"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."
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"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."
"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."
"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."
"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible."
"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"
"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
"I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it."
"If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way."
"Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss."
"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."
"That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."
"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."
"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."
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