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You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Visiting
Movie Set
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I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Figures
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From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Book
Rights
Vanity
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Vanity Fair
Article
From Time To Time
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Fields
Fortunate
Lucky
Support
American Writers
Writers
Large
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Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Insult
People
Pride
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I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Accustomed
Pride
Rudeness
Where Internet People
Forum
Insults
Rule
Seem
Too Many People
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When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Life Your People
Explain
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The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Beach
California
Manhattan
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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Nonfiction
Tension
Author
Intact
Slight
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I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Accurate
Closest
Relieved
Attempted
Closest Thing
Enemies
Historically
Quietly
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Bonnie and Clyde, while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Killers
Robins
White
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Romantic
Portraying
Parker
Robin
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I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Empowered
Online
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Realization
Anderson
Blog
Turning
Diane
Hundreds
Snap
Struck
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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Computer Screen
Drudgery
Glamorous
Juggling
Love Is
Routine
Verbs
All Day
Daily
Love Love Is Yourself
Demanding
Editor
Noun
Screen
Wonderful Thing
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All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
Bryan Burrough / Author
Amazement
Hbo
Nelson
Tracking
Bank
Bought
Stumbled
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