Bryan Burrough Quotes

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

Bryan Burrough

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 13, 1961

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The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.

Jerry Leiber

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In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.

Trixie Mattel

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My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

Miguel Zenon

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Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Donny Osmond

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You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know that there's a diversity problem.

Christine Tsai

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It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

Brian Jordan

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People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the Actors Fund program is there to do is wake their head up to realize there are other things they can do.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

William Godwin

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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

Phillip E. Johnson

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I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a chance at a different life, too.

Susan Burton

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