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.
BARBARA WALTERSWork 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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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.
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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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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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