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• At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the…
• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two…
• In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about…
• Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on…
• You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
• The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on…
• Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
• We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I…
• As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your…
• Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the…
• Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has…
• I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in…

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