Ed Bradley Quotes

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Ed Bradley

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 22, 1941

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

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

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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.

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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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I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

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

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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.

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

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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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

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

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I did anything that would get me on the air.

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

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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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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

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

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

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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

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