Quotes by Diane Sawyer

About Diane Sawyer:

Lila Diane Sawyer is an American television journalist. 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.
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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.

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Diane Sawyer

Great questions make great reporting.

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

Diane Sawyer

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.

Diane Sawyer

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.

Diane Sawyer

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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!'

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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.

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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.

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

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

Diane Sawyer

Author Bio

  • NameDiane Sawyer
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornDecember 22, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsPeabody Award; George Polk Award