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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
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Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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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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I didn't have a very religious family.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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Don't let the bastards get you down.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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