Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
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I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.
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Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.
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I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.