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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#abraham lincoln #boy #gay #had #heroes

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#fare #i #lincoln #presidential #sure

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

#australia #course #elizabeth #head #into

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#city #city hall #counted #course #cover

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#always #could #doing #happen #know

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#ham #little #little bit #lot #me

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.' ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#always #because #change #people #said

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that. ↗

— Richard Donner

#approaching #because #blood #brando #doing

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip. ↗

— Richard Donner

#any #been #dues #great #i