To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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