"I've been shot at on numerous occasions." — John Pomfret
"I've been shot at on numerous occasions."
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John Pomfret
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27 Quotes by John Pomfret
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the…
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…
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