Katie Couric’s motto: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”

<img alt="Brad Barket/Getty Images" title="Brad Barket/Getty Images" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/5N5KFwkQ1imF/photos/ec9b8c240e62b83d52d54b4ff760c17e/mr_0b50655c9308a6.jpg?ug_____DoQZec_VI" align="left" height="265" width="400">We love seeing famous interviewers have the tables turned on them for an interview. Katie Couric was given the infamous Proust Questionnaire by Vanity Fair magazine, through which we gain loads of personal info. Particularly that she’s a fan of “Dirty Dancing.” Take a look at her answers. [<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/proust_couric200901%20">Vanity Fair</a>] <br><br><br>What is your idea of perfect happiness?<br>At the kitchen table, laughing with my daughters.<br><br>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?<br>I can be a sore loser and an obnoxious winner.<br><br>What is the trait you most deplore in others?<br>Pretentiousness.<br><br>What is your greatest extravagance?<br>My red Thunderbird.<br><br>What is your current state of mind?<br>Exhausted.<br><br>What do you consider the most overrated virtue?<br>Inner peace.<br><br>On what occasion do you lie?<br>My parents don’t need to know everything.<br><br>What do you dislike most about your appearance?<br>My chewed-up fingernails.<br><br>What is the quality you most like in a man?<br>Integrity.<br><br>What is the quality you most like in a woman?<br>Humor.<br><br>Which living person do you most admire?<br>Paul Farmer.<br><br>Which words or phrases do you most overuse?<br>“Honestly, you guys … “<br><br>What or who is the greatest love of your life?<br>My daughters, Ellie and Carrie.<br><br>When and where were you happiest?<br>I had just brought Carrie home from the hospital, and she, Ellie, and I were taking a nap while my husband, Jay, was playing a Chopin nocturne on the Steinway we had bought each other for our birthdays.<br><br>Which talent would you most like to have?<br>I would sing like Ella Fitzgerald.<br><br>If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?<br>I’d grow six inches.<br><br>What do you consider your greatest achievement?<br>Raising awareness about colon cancer.<br><br>If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?<br>Thomas Jefferson.<br><br>Where would you like to live?<br>New York City or Tuscany.<br><br>What is your most treasured possession?<br>My grandmother’s pillbox collection.<br><br>What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?<br>Helplessness.<br><br>What is your most marked characteristic?<br>My gummy smile.<br><br>Who are your favorite writers?<br>Edith Wharton, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, John Steinbeck, Philip Roth.<br><br>Who is your favorite hero of fiction?<br>Mulan.<br><br>Which historical figure do you most identify with?<br>Amelia Earhart.<br><br>Who are your heroes in real life?<br>My parents, cancer researchers, and Dara Torres.<br><br>What is your greatest regret?<br>Not telling my husband I loved him 20 times a day.<br><br>How would you like to die?<br>Quickly.<br><br>What is your motto?<br>“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”<br>
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  • legomyego's Avatar
    Posted by legomyego Tue Dec 2, 2008 1:22pm PST

    yummy

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  • fivepaws's Avatar
    Posted by fivepaws Tue Dec 2, 2008 1:29pm PST

    Katie couric is a HATEFUL lady...........I never saw such hate pouring out of someone as I did when I watched her intervied Sarah Palin. It was bone chilling. Now I can't even stand to look at her.

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  • MochaMama42's Avatar
    Posted by MochaMama42 Tue Dec 2, 2008 2:28pm PST

    Interesting answers; I'm not sure what I expected her to say. I have to admit, I do enjoy reading Vanity Fair for the Proust Questionnaire, it's an interesting look into the "mind of the celebrity".

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    Posted by ♥sunshinelady♥ Tue Dec 2, 2008 3:03pm PST

    Katie Couric , is a loser bimbo who tried to improve her dismal ratings by ambushing Sarah Palin. Can't stand the twit. Dan Rather said that cbs dumbed up when they hired her. I'm waiting for the twit to get fired. LOL . Nasty woman.

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    Posted by Tue Dec 2, 2008 4:07pm PST

    I enjoyed reading this one post here, but no comment overall. I've watched her b4 on tv.

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    Posted by Chloe Tue Dec 2, 2008 5:46pm PST

    I love her she is smart, relatable, successful and as tough as any man doing the job – she’s supposed to be.

    And seriously, Sarah Palin did it to herself. She was unprepared, smug and her folksy crap apparently does not disarm intelligent women. Besides, Palin did not have a problem flexing her pit bull jaws when crossing the line with her hate rhetoric.

    Katie was right to go after her - if you dish it you should be able to take it and she, thankfully, exposed Palin for the dim-witted, sad excuse for a public servant that she is. I would not sit around waiting for Ms. Couric to get fired anytime soon, if she does nothing else, she's gonna get a lot of mileage out of that blessed event!

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  • ♥sunshinelady♥'s Avatar
    Posted by ♥sunshinelady♥ Tue Dec 2, 2008 7:45pm PST

    What a loser that she needed Sarah Palin to establish herself as a journalist. BIMBO !!!!!!

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    Posted by deb Wed Dec 3, 2008 5:55am PST

    Katie Couric gave Sarah Palin softball questions and she screwed it up anyway. Sarah Palin was not prepared, and she tripped over her own self. Sarah did it with her other interviews too, so it isn't like Katie did anything different. Sarah even proved in an interview 5 weeks into the campaign that she hadn't bothered to find out what a vice president does, according to history and the constitiution. Katie Couric did a great interview. Sarah Palin is just the poster girl of the stupid, narrow-minded worst parts of America.

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    Posted by Viki Wed Dec 3, 2008 6:46am PST

    I no longer watch her or read her interviews. Couric becomes all starry eyed and smiley when interviewing people she politically likes and a "tough journalist" when she does not like the party she is interviewing. Overall that makes any interview she does scewed and worthless.

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    Posted by Alisa Wed Dec 3, 2008 9:34am PST

    Apparently this blog doesn't have a decent filter, so rude people like sunshinelady and self promoting people like lindsaylove061 can post really stupid and useless things on this blog. If I were you Yahoo, I would have someone seriously watch that kind of crap and put up a decent profanity list. Too bad technology can't make up for people's lack of integrity. Also, all you right wing ladies should be aware that you scare other women from expecting intelligence from Sarah Palin by going after Katie. Katie has been a professional for many years, dealt with grief and the underworld of reporting, all the while retaining her integrity, humor and professionalism. CBS didn't promote her as a last minute desperate attempt to get viewers (read=like McCain did with Palin). Katie has always been herself and that's why she is so successful. Frankly, I was glad to see Palin go down in flames, she is so fake, aggressive and lacks the proper judgement to lead our country in any way. If you can't keep your kids from becoming pregnant and in school, then you really shouldn't put yourself out there as to run as vice president, without expecting the keen public sensibility from sniffing out your incompetence.

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