P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Reporters
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I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].
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If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.
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One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
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[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.
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I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
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I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.
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I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.
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Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.
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