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Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
— Kim Cattrall
I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
— Joe DiMaggio
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
— Jill Davis
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
— Bob Woodward
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
— Sam Raimi
A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.
— Jack Smith
Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
— Aaron Schock
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
— Jim Bishop
Ben m'boy," Jubal said gently, "as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job ... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
— Andrea Mitchell
He thought I'd be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I'd consistently fallen short of expectations.
— Gillian Flynn
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
— Michael Hastings
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
— Charles Kuralt
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
— Bill Kurtis
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
— Heather Brooke
I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.
— I.B. Nosey
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
— Neil Sheehan
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
— Dana Goodyear
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
— Karl Kraus
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
— Dee Dee Myers
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
— Ambrose Bierce
As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.
— Leslie Meier
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
— Joe Pantoliano
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
— Larry Kramer
It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.
— David Halberstam
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
— Willie Stargell
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
— Ben Bradlee
Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?
— Movie Deep Impact
I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
— Evan Osnos
The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.
— Gwenda Bond
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
— Jeffery Deaver
I used to be a print reporter.
— Bob Schieffer
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
— RuPaul
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
— Jackie Kennedy
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
— Jennifer Weiner
I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.
— Ray Metzker
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
— Andy Rooney
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.
— Jack Paar
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
— William Finnegan
Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.
— Ryu Murakami
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.
— Jackie Kennedy
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
— Kara Swisher
A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, How did you feel?
— Stephen King
Someone said, "Hey, Wanda," and I deduced that this was Wanda. This is why I am such a good reporter.
— Chris Fabry
Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
— Allan Sloan
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.
— Fred Reed
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
— Peter Jennings
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,
— John Oliver
It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.
— Leslie Meier
Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.
— Megan Alexander
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
— Andrew Ferguson
You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
— Pete Hamill
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
— Thomas Carlyle
Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.
— Paul LePage
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
— Adam Davidson
A single soldier is nothing to anyone, but a single reporter can change the world." John
— Chris Strange
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
— Carl Bernstein
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
— Helen Thomas
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.
— H.L. Mencken
"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
— Lech Walesa
My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.
— Peter Jacobson
It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
— Jill Abramson
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.
— Eric Schlosser
I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
— David Lagercrantz
I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.
— Trey Gowdy
Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.
— Laurie Beth Jones
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
— Jack Germond
A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.
— Leslie Meier
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
— Paul Simon
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
— Fred W. Friendly
Gareth raked her with a nasty glare. "What are you? A fucking lawyer?"
Susan:"Worse. Reporter. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Susan:"Worse. Reporter. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
— Matt Drudge
If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.
— Grace Phipps
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
— Phil Donahue
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
— Bob Schieffer
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
— Tom Stoppard
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
— Anna Quindlen
I started as a print reporter.
— Jim Lehrer