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Jane Pauley Biography

Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950), better known as Jane Pauley, is an American television journalist and author; she has been involved in news reporting since 1972. She is the anchor of CBS Sunday Morning and previously best known for her 13-year tenure on NBC's Today program, followed by 12 years as co-host of Dateline NBC, and for her public acknowledgements of her struggle with bipolar disorder.

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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.

Kids, Example, Watches, Learn, Convinced

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.

Ego, Explain, Guess, Healthy, People

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

Animal, Cat, Look, Sleep, Sleeping

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Experience, Imagine, Life, Opposites, Parent

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

Silly, Call Me, Applies, Word, Nobody

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.

Age, Children, Missing, Old, Raggedy, Two

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

Day, Like, People, Think, Thinking, Tvs

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

Fame, Intoxicating, Like, Profoundly, Reality, Thinking

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.

Granted, Life, Ordinary, Ordinary Life, Take

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.

Accompanies, College, Daughter, Kids, Mother, Turned

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?

Barbara, Notion, Now And Then, Sound, Sounds, Tried

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.

Babies, Baby, Children, Inspiring, Mothers Day, Raised

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.

Amused, Audience, Laugh, Laughing, People, Who You Know

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Happened, Kind, Person, Thing, Thinking, Way

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

People, Probably, Realize, Realizing, Shy

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

Change, Changes, Life Changing, Oriented, People, Stripes

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.

Ambition, Driven, Killer, Player, Team, Winning

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.

Depression, Enough, Keep, Months, Serious, Work

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children, Six, Friends, Cook

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.

Father, Maybe, Mother, Parent, Parents, Respected

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