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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"

"First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past."

"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."

"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."

"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."

"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
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