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"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."
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"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
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"I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position."
Change
"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
Life
"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself."
Nature
"There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy."
Communication
"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
Reason
"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
Heart
"I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected."
Care
"When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion."
Friendship
"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
Action
"Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well."
People
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