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Deborah Norville Quotes

«I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.»
«I actually love that song, the whole story about Francis Scott Key looking out over the water to see if we had won or lost the battle, but it's a tough song. I was nervous, but the lady playing the big organ told me about all the people who had messed up, so I figured if I made a mistake, I'd be OK.»
« I loved it. It was fun saying hi to people. When someone would ask what I was doing there, I would say I was going car-to-car trying to get viewers. A couple days later, I heard on the news that there was a major traffic backup at the tunnel. Imagine the problems I could have created.»
«The ladies who ran the contest said, 'Well honey, don't you sing while you sew or maybe you tap dance while you sew?' I said, 'No ma'am, I just sort of sit there.' That was not what they wanted to hear.»
«The reason the board of directors voted to discontinue the program was for lack of national sponsors. I think it's a sad commentary on the world we live in today, if nowhere in this 500-channel, 24/7 broadcast day can they find room for a program that celebrates girls for being good.»
«This is what women, a little more than 100 years ago, were being told how life should be lived,»
«come together to share war stories.»
«What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.»
«In this cluttered media landscape, recognition and the automatic, encyclopedic knowledge you have about a bona fide celebrity like Katie, is a very valuable commodity.»
«Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.»