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" All I'm armed with is research. "
Mike Wallace
Research
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" To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. "
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" I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. "
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" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "
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" Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. "
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" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "
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" I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. "
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" Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. "
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" Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. "
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" What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush? "
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" There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job. "
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" You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. "
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" My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. "
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" Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. "
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You
Hard
Hell
" I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. "
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Phone
You
" You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist. "
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You
Go
Want
" 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. "
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You
Learn
" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "
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Face
Anchor
Defied
" I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. "
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Years
Always
You
" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "
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Story
Never
Period
" The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. "
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Problem
Information
Light
" I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. "
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Ashamed
Working
" You want to put a man at ease. "
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" I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago. "
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Acting
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" There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path. "
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Good
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" I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have. "
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Should
" When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. "
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University
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" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "
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