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David McCullough

"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."

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"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."

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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."

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"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
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"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
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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."
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"First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past."
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"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."
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"I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist."
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"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."
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"To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
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