Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
BARBARA WALTERSpolitics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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 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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