#reporter

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#always #audition #before #ever #get

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it. ↗

— Dale Messick

#exciting #get #girl #i #letters

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#disbelief #government #readers #reporters #spoken

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#air #always #boom #concerned #done

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#borrowed #flying #reporter

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#consider #get #i #just #kind

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#only #other #people #politicians #reporters

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#few #first #first thing #old #phone

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate