Journalist Quotes

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

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.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

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

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

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

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

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

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.