Anderson Said...

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"It`s not your client`s obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client`s innocence. It is the prosecution`s obligation to -- to prove you`re client`s guilt."

"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"

"If I`m hip, we`ve got a problem in this country. I really shouldn`t be held up as any model of hipness. If anything I think I`m sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There`s a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact."

"When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then I`ve always gone on my instincts."

"That`s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."

"Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever."

"Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock."

"The whole celebrity culture thing - I`m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."

"I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don`t know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don`t know as long as you say you don`t know it."

"I`ve been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb."

"Anyone who says they`re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."

"When the war in Iraq began I was anchoring the overnight coverage for CNN. Your teleprompter is blank and you have four hours to fill, and it can be a very long night if you don`t know your stuff. I like that challenge."

"We do things with a wink and a nod. If you don`t include yourself in the critique, you have no business doing it."

"I`ve always loved reporting from the field most of all. There`s something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that`s always appealed to me. I think there`s great value to bearing witness to these events as they`re actually happening."

"I think it`s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I`m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible."

"I very much do not want to become what I used to make fun of. The newscaster on 'The Simpsons' (1989) sadly is not that far off from what you see out there".

"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you`re not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you`re special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that`s the kiss of death."

"Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss."

"The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that`s neo-Nazis or pedophiles."

"I suppose if you`ve never bitten your nails, there isn`t any way to explain the habit. It`s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."

"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren`t being told, and the fact that people don`t know about them compounds the suffering."

Regarding his appearance on Celebrity Jeopardy: "It was called the Power Players edition, though I`m not sure why I was in it because I`m neither a "playa" nor a person of power. The experience really made me realize how much of a loser I am, because of how much I got into it. I mean, it`s kind of a no-win proposition. In what I do you`re supposed to know a certain amount of things, and there you are exposing yourself to ridicule for not knowing stuff. I didn`t consider it that much in advance, but that morning I woke up and was like `What have I got myself into?` But I feel OK about it now."

"If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they`re more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way."

"I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict."