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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Technology Me Research Writing Long

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Jef I. Richards

Advertising Bad Out Embarrassing

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill.

Suki Waterhouse

Change Music Myself Heaven Bath Out

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

Music Teen Brother Sister Country

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.

India Go Desire Know Strange Never

People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.

Nature Change People Always Alert

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

Angry Moments Important Special Try

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

Myself Political Say Want Way See

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

Best Think You Want Possible Bring

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

Girl Technology School Weather Radio

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

Mind Know Forget Sometimes Complain

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Research Doing Write Nonfiction Paid

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Year Done Write Difficult Vampire

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