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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
- Predictions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My predictions are notably inaccurate.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
- Senate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate is an unknowing world.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020