Going There Quotes

“The only way it can work is for you to throw yourself on the mercy of the audience and hope they like you for what you really, truly, honestly are. The camera is the world’s most sophisticated lie detector.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Ninety-year-old Irving Fradkin, an optometrist from Fall River, Massachusetts, who started a grass-roots scholarship fund, flanked by a dozen grateful kids among the hundreds of thousands he’d sent to college.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“more than half of med school students are women.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, ‘We put our love where we have put our labor.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Maeve Binchy”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Endless gratitude to my posse of pals who fielded countless calls and texts, and took so many walks down memory lane with me, with plenty of liquor nearby: Bob Peterson, Matt Lombardi, Lori Beecher, Lauren Osborn, Nicolla Hewitt, Brian Goldsmith, and Tony Maciulis. (If these walls could talk—oh wait, they just did.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“For 42 years, I’ve been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education, and training. And on January 15th, the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Dave Barry once satirized Thurmond in his syndicated column, saying he colored his hair with Tang).”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“I think my zygomaticus major might be major. I smile big and I smile a lot—even my resting bitch face is a smile.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“One of my favorite producers, Molly McGinnis, reminded me of the time I called her into my office after hours to tell her I wasn’t happy with the direction the shows were taking, saying they lacked substance.”
― Katie Couric, Going There