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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

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I can only control what I can control.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 3rd, 1959

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