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I've Chosen To Be A Commentator And An Analyzer Of Politics, Rather Than An Actual Doer Of It. I Think It Could Have Gone The Other Way, But I'm Not Sorry That It Didn't, Because This Made It Easier To Be Home With My Kids And To Spend Time With Them. Writing You Can Do Right In Your House. You Don't Have To Go Anywhere.

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The Value That I Found In Interviewing Was For An Educational Experience, Just To Know That History Itself Is Subjective, That You Can't Say, "it Happened." Do The Best You Can With What You Think Happened, But A Lot Of Other People Are Going To See It Happening Differently.

I Think Confidence Comes From Doing Something Well, Working At It Hard, And You Build It Up. It's Not Something You're Born With. You Have To Build The Confidence As You Go Along.

I'd Like To Think That What My Style Of Writing Is, Is An Attempt Not So Much To Judge The Characters That I'm Writing About, To Expose Them, To Label Them, To Stereotype Them, But Instead To Make Them Come Alive For The Reader With All Their Strengths And Their Flaws Intact.