David McCullough Quotes
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
