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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1943

Topics

Now Want Will My Own Never Own

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

Joe Sacco

Myself People Facts Doing Searching

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

Life My Life Chess

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.

Michael Finkel

World Year More Years See Traveling

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

Steffan Rhodri

Myself Doing Rules Never Going Show

What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.

Tony Danza

Teacher Myself Doing Year You Know

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

Tom Jenkinson

Music People Direction Doing You Go

It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

Robin S. Sharma

Mountains End Easy Wrong Turn Out

Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge.

Romain Grosjean

Challenge Place Race Always Pretty

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

Mary Lambert

Music People Growing Up Saying You

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

Jason Reynolds

Believe Thinking Someone Magic Want

I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.

Christian de Duve

Friend System Because Interested Had

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Antony Hewish

Work Challenge Ideas Believe Enjoy