David Maraniss Quotes
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!
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The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
