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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.

Barbara Walters

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

Hands Pieces Show Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dinner Guests Nbc Party
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERS

Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERS

Complaining Fighting Jobs
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip People Relationship
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
BARBARA WALTERS

Fire Hug President
I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Family Myself Religious
A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Competition Conversation Practice
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
BARBARA WALTERS

Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Democracy Together Years
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Literature Poetic Thinking
The news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERS

General Liberty Media
Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
BARBARA WALTERS

House Party People
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Enchant Parents Willing Young
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Sex Way
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Trouble Yourself

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