Decades ago, when I was agonizing over the decision to forsake my profession as a trial lawyer to pursue a far riskier and more uncertain career in television news, my mother offered sage advice.
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mother → agonize → advice
"The worst thing you can do is choose the easy course and be haunted by regret over what might have been."
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what → do → regret
I embraced her counsel, realizing that the only thing scarier than change is the absence of imagination.
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thing → embrace → imagination
I quit my secure and lucrative job as an attorney in San Francisco and moved forward into the unknown.
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I → quit → unknown
Fortunately, I was too naive to understand that the chances of success were remote.
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chances → understand → success
I discovered that change hurts.
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change → discover → ?
But the fear of failure forced me to persevere.
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fear → force → me
My early ventures up the ladder from local news channels to larger network operations felt like Churchill’s "wilderness years."
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ventures → feel → years
Self-doubt was always hovering nearby.
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doubt → hover → ?
But all of that vanished when I landed at Fox News nearly a quarter of a century ago.
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I → vanish → News
I have been grateful ever since to have played a small role in a network that has changed the face of television news for the better.
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that → play → better
I could tell at the outset that the people at Fox were different.
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people → tell → Fox
We supported one another.
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We → support → one
I could tell at the outset that the people at Fox were different.
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people → tell → Fox
We supported one another.
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We → support → one
They watch with consistency because they trust what they see and hear.
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they → watch → what
They feel engaged.
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They → feel → ?
In turn, those of us on air and the many people behind the scenes do our level best to maintain that trust by providing the highest-quality news and information available.
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those → do → news
As a 24-hour news operation, that level of devotion and diligence is not easy to sustain.
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level → sustain → devotion
Yet I am consistently impressed by the energy, creativity, and intelligence that my colleagues bring to the on-air product every hour of every day.
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colleagues → impress → day
They are tireless and enthusiastic even when they have every right not to be.
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they → have → right
During my many years at Fox, I have covered a multitude of stories—the War on Terror, hurricanes, disasters, presidential elections, the dot-com crash, financial calamities, social upheavals, cultural controversies, criminal trials, Supreme Court decisions, and the COVID-19 pandemic, to name a few.
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I → cover → few
Fox never said "no" when I wanted to venture beyond the newsroom.
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I → say → newsroom
They encouraged it.
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They → encourage → it
I have grown and evolved in ways that I never imagined.
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I → grow → that
Fox made that possible.
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that → make → ?
And I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
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I → enjoy → it
Having previously reported from conflict zones in the Middle East, I volunteered in 2003 as a correspondent during the Iraq War.
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I → report → War
For a time, I was embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division.
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I → embed → Division
These were courageous young soldiers who took good care of me.
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who → take → me
The experience gave me a renewed respect and admiration for our nation’s military.
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experience → give → military
The world has changed dramatically since I first stepped into the Fox studios back in 2002.
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I → change → 2002
America has become more digital, diverse, and technologically advanced.
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America → become → ?
Smartphones, e-commerce, social media, cloud computing, and now AI have transformed our lives.
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Smartphones → transform → lives
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered around 10,000 back then.
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Average → hover → 10,000
It now exceeds 50,000.
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It → exceed → 50,000
In my time at Fox News, I have served as an anchor, reporter, documentary host, opinion columnist, and, most recently, legal analyst for the network.
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I → serve → network
I penned four books along the way.
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I → pen → way
I have grown and evolved in ways that I never imagined.
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I → grow → that
Fox made that possible.
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that → make → ?
…and 5 more, not listed.
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