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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
Chaos
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
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"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
History
"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
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"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."
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"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
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"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."
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"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
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"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low."
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"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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