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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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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
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"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."
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"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."
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"In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set."
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"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick."
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"The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise."
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"When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair."
People
"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."
People
"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?"
History
"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."
War
"Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project."
Learning
"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
Hope
"I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
Love
"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."
War
"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."
History
"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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