Quotes from Diane Sawyer

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

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

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

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.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

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

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.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

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.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

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.

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

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

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

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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 get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.