Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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