#covering

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#discovering #feminist #first #hero #i

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. ↗

— John Pomfret

#california #county #covering #i #making

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out. ↗

— Al Roker

#because #black #covering #downtown #had

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#covering #either #entities #job #mainstream

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#big #box #censorship #clear #course

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#been #continuation #covering #government #i

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. ↗

— John Tesh

#covering #europe #events #france #i

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff. ↗

— John Tesh

#covering #everything #i #killer #old

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#discovering #effect #experience #happenings #life