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- Job
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
- Me
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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
- Because
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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
- Go
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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 taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
- Know
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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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
- Anything
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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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
- Fun
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
- Hope
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