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" It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks. "
Douglas Brunt
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" In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up. "
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" I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach. "
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" 'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street. "
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" Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial. "
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" If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers. "
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" I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book. "
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Great
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" It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children. "
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" A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it. "
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Nature
Human
" With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal. "
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You
Young
" New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground. "
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Money
New
New York
" In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money. "
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" I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money. "
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Measure
Sports
Youth
" Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself. "
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Time
Writing
You
" A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income. "
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Professional
Salary
" The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.' "
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Give
Job
Then
" The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day. "
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Rest
Best
Brain
" Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions. "
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Year
Summer
Winter
" At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete. "
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Monday
Son
Soccer
" There used to be a few 'Great Santinis', but now there's many 'Great Santinis'. "
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Great
Now
Used
" Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984. "
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Winning
Team
" The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day. "
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Election
Political
Love
" When the kids are down, I have a drink and watch 'The Kelly File.' "
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Down
Watch
Kids
" Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Other people are best late at night. "
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People
Best
Late
" My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor. "
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Moment
Mother
" A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy. "
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Look
Memories
" The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own. "
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" Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids. "
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Culture
Life
Wife
" Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style. "
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Style
Real
Matters
" New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the senses, it's the most convenient place to live. It's much easier for a ninety year old to live in New York City than in the suburbs. NYC is the best mass assisted-living facility on the planet. "
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City
Best
Live
" Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional. "
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Utterly
Dysfunctional
Washington