Oprah Winfrey
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certainly nobody was being themselves.
It was all television and you put on a face for television and you go on television, you act like you own TV.
And I think what our show did and before our show, who was the, whose shoulders I stand on is Phil Donahue.
And I actually stopped watching Phil Donahue when I became a talk show host myself because I found myself imitating him.
So I stopped watching Phil when I started doing it myself.
I remember leaving at 19, and I was leaving because I had a boyfriend.
And my father was like, no 25-year-old is going to be coming in his house, and no 25-year-old just wants to go to the park and feed the ducks because the boyfriend before that was my age, 16.
And I left my father's house because I wanted to be able to spend time with a boyfriend and not have to be home by 11 o'clock.
And also because I was already an anchor woman on television and having to be home by 11 o'clock.