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David McCullough Quotes

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

David McCullough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1933

Topics

Work Research Book Thought Way Then

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

John H. Johnson

Worthwhile Disappointments Times

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Wisdom Time Sun Repair Roof Shining

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

Melissa McCarthy

Great Little Girls Negative Energy

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

Sky Job Trying Year See Channels

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

Memories Time Look I Can Way Diary

After doing 'Life After Beth,' which I think had one line that wasn't scripted, everything was scripted so that it sounds natural, and I went to such great lengths to create dialogue and to come across the way that people wouldn't sound like they were on the nose.

Life Great People Think Doing Way

I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it.

School High School Learn Play Listen

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

I Am Years Singer Been Dancer Am

I was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.

Run Same Just Expected Roberto

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

City Talk Cruel Hospitals About

When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.

Jonathan Powell

Time Experience Political Problem

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

Sick Fat You Know Lifestyle Get

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