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" That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor. "
Bill Kurtis
Wanted
Left
Reason
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" There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that. "
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" I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true. "
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" With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks. "
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" You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. "
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Night
" First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it. "
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Cow
Good
" Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading. "
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Office
Politics
" You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo. "
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Good
Keep
" All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world. "
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You
Yourself
" We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue. "
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Losing
Him
Career
" I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. "
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Value
Present
Past
" I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction. "
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Experience
Work
Never
" Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over. "
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Away
Because
Film
" Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible. "
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Long
Work
Better
" The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer. "
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Park
Sea
Year
" There's room for a diversity of ages on television. "
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Ages
Television
Room
" If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it. "
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Shot
Always
Money
" The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that. "
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New
Boss
You
" 'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking. "
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Year
Quite
Week
" My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. "
Bill Kurtis
Dash
Running
Philosophy
" In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job. "
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Better
Job
New
" I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times. "
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People
Tough Times
Looking
" The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming. "
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Ohio
Global Warming
Done
" I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool. "
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People
Young
Cool
" Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism. "
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Future
Think
Journalism