Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyeris 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth22 December 1945
CityGlasgow, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Diane Sawyer quotes about
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
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.
The dream is not the destination but the journey.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together,
I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
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 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.
Memory diffuses fact.
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.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.