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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.

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
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Firsts
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

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
BARBARA WALTERS

People Perfect Talking
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation
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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Democracy Together Years
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Achievement Boston Kind
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA WALTERS

Different Education Heaven Life Meaning Religious Version
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
BARBARA WALTERS

Acceptance Inspirational Women
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter
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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Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
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.
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Background Better Information Myself Party World
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERS

Atheist City Equal Pay Sin

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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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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