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"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains."
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"We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids."
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"I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."
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"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you."
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"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."
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"I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can."
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"Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin."
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"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
Life
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
Kids
"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
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"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling."
Time
"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
Society
"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
Age
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
Friendship
"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."
Hate
"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
Society
"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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