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" Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. "

Ed Bradley

Growing Up

Anchor

Doing

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" So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy. "

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Phone

Leader

" You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to. "

" I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. "

" I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game. "

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Summer

Game

" The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. "

" My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father. "

" There was no one around me who didn't work hard. "

" I did anything that would get me on the air. "

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Would

Air

" You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important. "

" I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. "

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Homework

Story

" Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me. "

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Mother

Responsibility

" And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. "

" I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. "

" I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. "

" Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience. "

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Things

Learned

" I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio. "

" But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun. "

" I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. "

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Vietnam

Always

" The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month. "

" The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important. "

" I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris. "

" That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into. "

" And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. "