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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version. ↗

— Walter Hill

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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. ↗

— Walter Hill

#another #fall #hbo #i #pilot

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it. ↗

— Walter Hill

#business #done #hopefully #i #inevitably

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#exactly #i #know #move #move on

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#business #comfortable #covering #demonstrated #editors

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#born #childhood #choice #could #drawers

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had