David McCullough Quotes
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.
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Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)
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My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.
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I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
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Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
