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I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.


Christiane Amanpour


#everybody #expected #fully #hectic #him

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.


Christiane Amanpour


#begin #boy #correspondent #equivalent #foreign

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.


Russell Baker


#elizabeth #foreign #made #me #queen

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.


Russell Baker


#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.


Francois Gautier


#being #best #correspondent #different #ended

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.


Robert Capa


#date #invasion #lana #like #miss

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.


Robert Capa


#correspondent #hands #his #horse #last

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.


Brit Hume


#already #away #because #big #big difference

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.


Ron Suskind


#daily #get #public #tend #things






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