I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSA job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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