Hailey Gates Quotes

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

I love journalism.

I think that my main business is as a news person.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.