Bryan Burrough Quotes

#1. I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

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#2. I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

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#3. Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting.

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#4. You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items.

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#7. But there was no denying Purvis's ineptitude in the Dillinger hunt. Suspects were found then lost. His informants were hopeless. He raided the wrong apartments. He built no bridges to the Chicago police while annoying other departments. He'd had his car stolen from in front of his house.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. He who's not busy being born is busy dying." Tony

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#11. an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility.

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#12. 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.

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#13. American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

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#14. '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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

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#17. Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.

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