Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSMost of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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 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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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