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 WALTERSThe 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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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 didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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