Alan Brinkley Quotes
Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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I want to win medals for myself.
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Nana (to Mariam): When I'm gone, you'll have nothing in this world. You are nothing!
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Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.
