Barbara Walters
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"Barbara Walters" is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today (U.S. TV program)/Today and The View (U.S. TV series)/The View, the television news magazine 20/20 (U.S. TV series)/20/20, co-anchored the ABC World News/ABC Evening News, and was a contributor to ABC News.

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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.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

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.