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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Barbara Walters

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
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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Hands Pieces Show Yourself
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Literature Poetic Thinking
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Defensive Mechanism Oysters Same Used
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Confusion Stimulation
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Humor Laughing Laughter
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Self Sleep
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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Heaven Idea Myself Novel
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Cream Heaven Ice Ideas
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation
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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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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Dream Gains Helping Others
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
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.
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Adventure Country Moving
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men
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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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children Sex Way
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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Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
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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Cutting Hands Pieces
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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Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself

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