Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSI didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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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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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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 hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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