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I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

~Mike Wallace

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I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

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In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.

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I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

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We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear.

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I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

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Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever.

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What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?

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There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 9th, 1918

Died: April 7th, 2012

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