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

Barbara Walters

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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Media News Want
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Party People Technique
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
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Authority Literature Men
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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Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
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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Feeling Job Value Yourself
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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
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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Control Interview Thinking Yourself
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Big Complain Early Fight Job Stay
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
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
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking

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