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Dan Rather
Broadcast Journalist
Dan Rather: I've always known how lucky I am and how blessed I am in that I knew very early on what I wanted to do. I cannot remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I repeat for emphasis, at that time and place being a reporter meant being a newspaper person. Why this is I've never quite known, but as far back as I can remember in the mists of my childhood, when somebody asked me what I wanted to be, I always said, "I want to be a reporter. I want to work for a newspaper." And when we played those children's games where some people wanted to be a pilot, a butcher, an Indian chief, I always said, you know, "I want to be a newspaper person. I want to be a reporter." I think that's because of my father's passion for newspapers and the fact that newspapers were such a part of our family life.
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Dan Rather
Broadcast Journalist
My mother was extremely determined that I would go to college, and when I got old enough to understand it, she was very rational about why, and she had it right. You know, "Look, in your father's time and your grandfather's time going to college was not an important thing, but in your time it's going to be a really important thing. And besides that, if --" and this is almost word for word -- "If you go to college and you make it, then your brother is very likely to be able to go, and he's going to make it, and if he does then your sister will." Now she had this all figured out in her head, and there's no doubt in my mind if it had not been for her, I wouldn't have gone to college. I might not have finished high school. Although I would say in high school the critical thing was football, that if I hadn't made it in football, I probably would have been gone from high school maybe in the eleventh grade, possibly as early as the tenth. But I wanted to play football so badly and I was beginning to see I just might make it. That, plus my mother's determination, kept me in high school.
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Dan Rather
Broadcast Journalist
Dan Rather: Curiosity and love of the story. What makes a reporter is being curious, wanting to know what's going on, wanting to know how things work, how they really work as opposed to how they may appear to work. You have to be curious to be a good reporter. And I think you have to have a love of stories and story telling. That's one reason why I think an early introduction to books and making yourself a lifetime reader is essential to being a good reporter.
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Lloyd Richards
Tony Award-Winning Director
Lloyd Richards: I remember studying Shakespeare as a young person in school, and I remember an assignment to memorize a soliloquy, which I did. I was asked to stand up in front of the class and do it. I did it and I found myself saying beautiful words, phrases, thoughts that I agreed with, and I found myself expressing myself through someone else's words. There were people there and they responded; a connection was made. And I guess there was a connection made in me, that I felt something, or received something in that. That was deeply satisfying.
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Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space
I was growing up in the early days of the space program, and I can still remember teachers wheeling those big old black and white television sets into the classroom, so that we could watch some of the early space launches and splashdowns, and that made a real impact on me, as I think it did a lot of kids growing up at the time. I thought a lot about what it would be like to be on a rocket and what it would be like to be in space when I was 12 years old.
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