Quote by Robert Caro
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous m

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. – Robert Caro

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Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all thats written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro

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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And its never come back. Its a trend that, if youre liberal, is really discouraging. – Robert Caro

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You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybodys switching to a computer. And Im sort of laughed at. – Robert Caro

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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because theyre very different routes. – James Purefoy

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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilberts Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. – Eminem

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. – Robert South

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Being big and famous doesnt get you more freedom, it gets you less. – Robert Wyatt

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