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"The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden."
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"Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life."
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"Exercise feels best after it is finished."
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"It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people."
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"Distress is a disease of the mind."
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"Health and happiness are interconnected."
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"Bitterness is the cancer of bones."
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"Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness."
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"Overwork can cause a break down."
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"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."
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"Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it."
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"For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write."
Being
"My work was entirely nonfiction."
Work
"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison."
Books
"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
Creativity
"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."
Information
"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
Research
"The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden."
Health
"I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything."
Travel
"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."
Hollywood
"I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book."
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