Diane Sawyer Quotes

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  Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

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  Tags in Believe In Yourself, Accept

• I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

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  Tags in Story, Asking

• I like talking. I didn’t know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

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• I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I’m not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn’t.

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

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• The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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• The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

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• Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

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• People tend to vote the present tense – not the subjective.

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• People assume you can’t be shy and be on television. They’re wrong.

  Diane Sawyer

• Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

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• If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

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• I’m not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don’t think.

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• I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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• I have a contract but it’s not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It’s our ongoing conversation.

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• I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

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• I don’t think it’s about entertainment. I think it’s about being ourselves.

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• I don’t know why I’m saying I’m brave.

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• Hope changes everything, doesn’t it?

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Diane Sawyer (25)

Birth:	22nd December, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Newsreader

About

Lila Diane Sawyer was born in Glasgow, Kentucky. She is an American television journalist and newscaster. Previously, Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and closely associated with the president himself. In 1967, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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