I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
— Diane Sawyer
I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.
I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
Great questions make great reporting.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
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.
I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
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.
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.
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.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
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.
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
