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" I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism. "

Peter Landesman

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" The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h. "

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" My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. "

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" I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush. "

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" I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. "

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" Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. "

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