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 WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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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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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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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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.
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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