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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Barbara Walters

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Heaven Idea Myself Novel
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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Nice Success Women
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Caustic Men Women
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Feelings Jobs Women
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter
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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Children Family Inspirational
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attractive Males Percentage
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
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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Democracy Together Years
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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Leadership Reality Voting
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman

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