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American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.


Robert Dallek
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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.


Charles Kennedy
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I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.


Phil Gramm
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre Beaumarchais
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.
Thomas Mallon
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I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.


Tom Lehman
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Karl Rove
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You just write about things that happen.


Alan Jackson
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I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.
Jim Gaffigan
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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.


Hugh Leonard
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Thomas E. Mann
You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
Wayne Grady
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
J. A. Konrath
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
John Thorn
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There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.


David Sedaris
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In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
Matt Taibbi
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Stanley Kubrick
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
Sam Shepard
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