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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Barbara Walters

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
BARBARA WALTERS

Achievement Boston Kind
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERS

Caustic Men Women
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Breathe Deep Party Shallow
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERS

Heart Myself People Sleep
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
BARBARA WALTERS

Kind Tree Yourself
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 WALTERS

People Thinking Voice
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Feeling Image Myself Personality
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
BARBARA WALTERS

Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cutting Hands Pieces
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Party People Technique
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Made Men
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interviewing Someone Thinking
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERS

Big Complain Early Fight Job Stay
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself

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