How to get quotes for your news article.

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Let's say you're a newspaper reporter who has been tasked with covering Jeremy Lin's departure from the New York Knicks. But like a kid who forgot to do his homework, on your way to work you remember that you forgot to get any quotes for your article! And you don't have any time to get any, because every morning you take a cab to work, for lunch you only go out to the food truck, and you get home so late from work that the only guy you see is the police officer that guards that dorms. What to do? Oh, INTERVIEW THOSE PEOPLE!

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketbal ... 44941?qr=1

Quote 1:

"It wouldn't have been good for the Knicks," to re-sign Lin, Vinny Bavero, 65, of Farmingdale, said as he worked a food truck Wednesday morning at the Long Island Rail Road station in Farmingdale.

Quote 2:

"They should have signed Lin to a long-term contract a long time ago," said John Svendsen, 70, of Bay Shore. A Checker cabdriver, Svendsen said the Knicks missed the boat of this one. "They didn't recognize stardom when it's looking them in the face," he said, adding: "The recent history of the Knicks indicates they're going straight to the tank. They got a team of empty jerseys and prima donnas."

Quote 3:

Fan Nick Perugini, 44, of Huntington, who works as a SUNY police officer at Farmingdale State College, said he thinks the move is good for both Lin and the Knicks. "He is a great player," Perugini said of Lin, adding that he thinks some of his now-former Knicks teammates resented him. "He's young and he's got a lot of years left."

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"Barry," the kid who works the Taco Bell drive-thru and always gives me hot sauce instead of fire sauce like I ask for, was unavailable for comment.