Troy Deeney Quotes

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

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

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

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.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

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

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

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

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

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

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.