Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.