Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
BARBARA WALTERSChildren are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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