I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen 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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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