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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Audition Correspondent Daily Daily Show East Ethnic Face Felt Got Had Hire Job Left Middle Middle East Needed People Show Slot Somebody Wanted

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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

~Adam Clymer

Topics: Back Book Came Chief Congressional Correspondent Kennedy Looking Out Reasons Stood Subject Ted Times Two Washington I Came

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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

~Alan Cranston

Topics: Activities Adventures Appealed Being Correspondent Covering Days Events Foreign Glamorous Great Greatly Having Idea Leaders Life Me Those Very Wandering Witnessing World

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Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

~Alfred Day Hershey

Topics: Actually Better Correspondent He His Language Mine Put Sentiment Than Words

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I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.

~Amy Chozick

Topics: Became Been Bureau Chief Clinton Correspondent Cover Editor Foreign Go Had He Hillary Hillary Clinton How Iowa Japan Journal Like Said Street Wall Wall Street Washington Would You

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I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.

~Anne Reid

Topics: Because Boy Class Comfortable Coming Correspondent Dining Ever Father Fixed Foreign Gregarious Having He His India Living Made Myself Newspaper Particular Pint Say Someone Think Used Very Who Working Working Class

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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Anderson Being Cooper Correspondent Foreign Going Notion Point Suddenly Cnn

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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Arab Arab World Call Career Correspondent Covering East Enjoy Entire Entire Career Flip Here Middle Middle East Myself Never Side Spent War World Would

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Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

~Arthur Bryant

Topics: According After Anti-Semitic Berlin Correspondent Even Five Legislation Like November Owned Persecution Property Real Reich Something Still Third Times Years

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My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was to parody TV reporters and political pundits. As a result, I was often invited onto cable news shows as comic relief.

~Beth Littleford

Topics: Big Cable Central Comedy Comic Correspondent Daily Daily Show First Gig Invited Job News Often Onto Parody Political Pundits Relief Reporters Result Show Shows Tv

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