Ann Curry
Ann Curry
Ann Curryis an American television personality, news journalist and photojournalist. Curry has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Syria, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq, among others. Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powerful' list, credited...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth19 November 1956
CountryUnited States of America
I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.
If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.
Journalism is an act of faith in the future
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.
Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.
Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.
I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.
Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.
I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.