Quote by Jimmy Breslin
The only reason this country is different from any place else is t

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin

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Mark Twain supposedly observed, Dont pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. Of course, today, he probably would have added, And hairspray by the gallon. – Thomas F. Calcagni

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969

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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. – Anna Quindlen

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. – Author Unknown

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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. – Al McGuire

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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