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You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
The courage to try something new makes me proud.
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.
I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'
When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.
The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.
'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.
It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?
Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.
We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
I do like some of the perks, like being, recognized, especially if I've had my makeup done and I'm going to be photographed and people admire me. Who wouldn't like that?
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.
I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.
I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.
I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.
I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!
I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.