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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
- Celebrity Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020