Journalist Quotes

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
James Daly

Greatest, Down, Artists

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
Diane Sawyer

Good, Follow, Cats

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.
Kirsty Gallacher

Fashion, Wanted, College

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.
Ruud Gullit

Time, Person, May

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.
Julia Cameron

Hope, Said, Both

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly

Real, Body, Story

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Michael Connelly

Trying, Write, Though

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
Michael Connelly

Heart, Deep, Though

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan

Work, Art, Strong

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
David Remnick

Job, Pretty, Joyfully

I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the world, people realize you're multi-faceted. Part of me is a serious journalist and I loved all of the stuff I did. And then there's another part of me that likes to let go and I think a lot of women can relate to that.
Hoda Kotb

Work, Women, Hard

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
Billy Bragg

Important, Artist, Anyone

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.
Asne Seierstad

Someone, Means, Risk

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.
John Pomfret

Travel, Living, Become

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
Shepard Smith

Everybody, Agenda

I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.
Shepard Smith

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
Jeannette Walls

Serious, Wanted

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.
Ron Livingston

Family, Amazing, Mother

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell

True, Moment, Novel

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Jonathan Demme

Rock, Whatever, Late

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
Edward Klein

Long, Hard, Enough

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
Anita Diament

Year, Research, Library

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
Cameron Crowe

Love, Music, Age

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban

Art, Jealousy, Failure

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Frederick Wiseman

Thoughts, Whether, Doctor

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
Jesse James Garrett

Work, Give, Same

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.
Joe Sacco

Time, Place, Around

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
Jacky Ickx

Father, Gave, Bike

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
Peter Brimelow

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.
Gerard Depardieu

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