A biography for Shannon Breamhasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.”
“From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.”
“I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.”
“There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.”
“Some nights you just can't predict what's going to happen live for an hour.”
“I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.”
“For me, my faith is the most important thing in my life.”
“I don't believe anything's a coincidence.”
“I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.”
“Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.”
“My mom taught me to respect myself, and to question anyone who would ask me to sacrifice my integrity.”
“Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.”
“Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over.”
“I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.”
“You don't even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.”
“I'm not a big breakfast person, but I try to eat a little something on the mornings I'm going to work out.”
“I, at almost 30 years old, became an intern at a local TV station in Tampa where I was practicing law. I'd do that during the day and then any nights or weekends or overnights I could work, I would go intern at the station.”
“Sometimes people think there is only one track to get to whatever your particular dream job is.”
“The surface cells on my eyes don't root back into my eyeball like a normal person's do. Instead, they want to pull off. At night, the surface of my eye was actually adhering to my eyelid. Once that happened, any movement would cause a tear and trigger nearly indescribable pain.”
“I have gone to White House dinners in a dress that I have bought at Loehmann's.”