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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.

Barbara Walters

I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERS

Girl Marriage Sleep
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
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cream Heaven Ice Ideas
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Background Better Information Myself Party World
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cuba Earth Yardsticks
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Church Literature Superstitions
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Clothes Dresses People
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

Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
BARBARA WALTERS

Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Firsts
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feelings Jobs Women
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report

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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