"I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works."

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Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

Robert Caro

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“You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.”
“you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.”
“New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...”

Source : "Fats Domino Found in New Orleans" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. September 1, 2005.
“The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.”
“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.”
“Whenever I get a chance to work in a different language, or in a different accent, or anything like that, I'm game. I think it's a great challenge and something to be done.”
“We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.”

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