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" American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon. "
Think
Love
Passing
" An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day. "
Profile
Day
Take
" Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things. "
Technology
Always
People
" Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination. "
You
Passionate
Follow
" Great questions make great reporting. "
Great
Questions
Make
" Hope changes everything, doesn't it? "
Hope
Changes
Everything
" I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave. "
Brave
Why
Saying
" I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves. "
I Think
Think
Entertainment
" If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. "
Our
Curious
Curiosity
" I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. "
Beginning
Much
Involved
" I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. "
Go
Work
Interesting
" I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. "
Contract
Our
Conversation
" I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. "
Because
Think
People
" I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer. "
Never
Will
Mother
" I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair. "
Worry
Hair
Time
" I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. "
Story
Early
Questions
" I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. "
Always
Fact
Fascinated
" I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think. "
Think
Comfortable
People
" I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. "
Attention
I Have Learned
Lesson
" I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life. "
Dress
Going
Know
" I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!' "
Think
Curious
Love
" I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying. "
Resting
Back
Blues
" I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf. "
Always
Party
Memory
" My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one. "
Husband
Said
Politics
" Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. "
Face
World
War
" People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong. "
Television
Wrong
You
" People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. "
Present
Vote
People
" Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next. "
Myself
Know
Life
" Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people! "
TV
Mistakes
People
" The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can. "
Interesting
Change
Test
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