Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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[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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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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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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