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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
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Sports
Admire
Apology
Hero
Sorry
Without
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He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.
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Easily
Ordered
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Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.
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Disappoint
Firsts
President
Ladies
Presidents
Rarely
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I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.
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My Own
Spirituality
Values
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There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?
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Long
Redemption
Thinking
Time Long Live
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People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
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Doe
Mean
People
Untrue
Authentic
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I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.
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Biographies
Congress
Secret
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I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
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It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.
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Tests
Would Be
Writing
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JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
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Believe
Bishops
Cardinals
Republican
Democrats
Republicans
Jfk
Nuns
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The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
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Biographies
Differences
Riding
Authorized
Carriage
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Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
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Compromise
Differences
Done
Tables
Showing
Studies
Table
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While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
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Girl
America
Heart
Investing
Opening
South Africa
Youth
Africa
Applauded
Criticized
Oprah
Young Girls
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Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.
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Over It
People
Perseverance
Roadblock
Walks
Walk Me People
Crawl
Jump
Telling
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I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
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Biographies
Our Society
Written
Believed
Influenced
Socially
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I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
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Girl
Catholic
Catholic School
Holy
Names
School
Irish Catholic
Nuns
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I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).
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Frank
Alarm
Biography
His Way
Signed
Sinatra
Warned
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
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Clinton
Neighborhood
Restaurants
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
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Barack
Neighborhood
Restaurants
Obama
Barack Obama
Washington
Indeed
Michelle
Michelle Obama
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Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
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Men
War
Abraham
Agree
Bloody
Civil War
House
Important
Slavery
States
United
White
White House
Through
Civil
Ever
Historians
Lincoln
Occupy
The Most Important
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I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.
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Jobs
Four
Years
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John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
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Adorable
Captivated
Charisma
Children
Country
Elegant
First Lady
Handsome
House
President
White
White House
Witty
Young
Young Children
Brought
John
Lady
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I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.
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Courage
Senate
Staff
Admired
Editorial
Mccarthy
Page
Post
Remained
Researcher
Washington Post
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Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.
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Discrimination
Gay
Military
Pay
Workplace
Addition
Ensure
Fair
Gays
Measure
Passed
Signed
Succeeded
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Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.
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Adviser
Country
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Invasion
Military
Numbers
Pigs
South
Vietnam
Bay
Carried
Haunted
Increased
Later
Missile
South Vietnam
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I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.
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Believe
Catholic
Catholic Church
Disillusioned
Divorce
Doctrine
Women Believe I Believe
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The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
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Sleep
Ties
Writing
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The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
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Boots
Concrete
Crime
Fishes
Frank
Organized
Print
Ties
Biography
Ending
In Print
Journalists
Rumors
Sinatra
Sleeping
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Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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Died
Fellowship
Honorary
Minnesota
Saint
Starting
University
Committee
Senator
Mccarthy
Member
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I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
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Claims
Disappointed
Father
Feelings
Identity
I Am Me Identity
Biological
Me I Am Father
Denies
Father I Am Me
Oprah
Revealed
Surprised
Tricked
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The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
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Access
Approval
Bus
Authorized
Version
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When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.
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Barack
Beloved
Mystique
Polls
According
Heir
Barack Obama
Endorsed
Laid
Mantle
Rightful
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Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.
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Accomplished
Adorable
Children
Commander In Chief
Fashionable
First Lady
Glamour
Two
White
White House
Young Children
Dash
Lady
Pets
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Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.
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First Lady
Former
Gay
Gay Marriage
Issues
Retired
Stars
Marriage Gay People
Appear
Bush
Closet
Colin
Colin Powell
Embracing
Few People
Front Page
Lady
Laura Bush
Page
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I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.
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Believe
Correspondence
Giving
Statements
Writing
Believe Your Will
Bank
Biography
Editorial
Interview
No Control
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.
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Happiness
Men
Sadness
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
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Capacity
Frank
Illumination
Sadness
Biography
Contradictions
Sinatra
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I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.
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Book
Powerful
Writing
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