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" As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. "
Sometimes
Older
New
" 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. "
Presence
Ballet
Feel
" Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. "
Mystery
Sort
Unravel
" 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. "
Two
Long
Party
" Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. "
People
Lost
Live
" 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. "
New York
New
Doing
" I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. "
Writing
I Am
Trying
" I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. "
Effort
Become
Ballet
" 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. "
Book
Think
Great
" I finish what I have to do in the office. "
Finish
Office
" 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. "
End
Up
Work
" 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. "
Bad
Writing
Jump
" 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. "
Power
People
Good
" 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. "
You
Experience
New
" In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. "
Democracy
Power
Political
" 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. "
Man
Political
Power
" I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. "
Years
Ballet
Know
" I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. "
Enjoy
My Life
Life
" 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. "
Book
Feel
You
" I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for. "
Think
Credit
Done
" I trained myself to be organized. "
Myself
Trained
Organized
" I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter. "
Rhythm
Mood
Chapter
" It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule. "
Myself
Fool
Job
" 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. "
Writing
Late
Long
" 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. "
World
You
Texas
" 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. "
Day
Power
Way
" Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. "
Work
Senate
Leader
" 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. "
Mood
Long
Work
" My predictions are notably inaccurate. "
Inaccurate
Predictions
" Nobody believes this, but I write very fast. "
Write
Very
I Write
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