Joanna Coles Quotes

I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.

I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

I'm scrappy.

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

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

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

I'm pretty stubborn.

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

He's in this race until hell freezes over!

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.