After Quote by Charles Portis Download Open image “I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.” — Charles Portis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare After Attention Attention span Beat Care Covering Day Reporting Same Short Span Thing
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
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I've certainly done more than my fair share of pouncing on a stupid issue to win the news cycle of the day, to distract… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats. — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
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“Who is the best marshal they have?' The sheriff thought on it for a minute. He said, 'I would have to weigh that proposition.… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“In South Texas I saw three interesting things. The first was a tiny girl, maybe ten years old, driving in a 1965 Cadillac. She… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“With that, Quincy brought the bowie knife down on Moon's cuffed hand and chopped off four fingers which flew up before my eyes like… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful” — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
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I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with. — Deke Richards Copy Share Image
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No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that… — Moses Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image