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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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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
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Television Presenter
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Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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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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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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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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A conversation isn't a competition.
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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 first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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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 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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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