My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.
I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.