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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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Years
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
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Luck
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Fun
Vietnam
I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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Decision
Job
Paris
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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God
Earth
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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Experience
Basketball
Games
Summer
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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Fun
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Love
Paris
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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Vietnam
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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Fun
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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Sports
Events
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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Age
Will
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.
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Thoughts
Right
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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Work
Hope
Luck
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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News