Barbara Walters Quotes
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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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.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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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.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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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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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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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 don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.