Delilah Quotes

I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.

I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.