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Amy Chozick Quotes

American - Journalist | -

I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.

Coffee Think Questions Help Plan

In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

Thinking Remember Tokyo Iowa Press

I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.

You Wall Go Said Washington Street

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

I Am Writing Start Think Friends

You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.

Book You Write Always Going Knew

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.

Job Me Green Name Insurance Back

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

Me Story Everything Saw Japan

I always chose the byline.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

Good People World Explain Tell Just

Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

Job Yourself Used Reporter Part

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

Women Opportunity Woman Career Down

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