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Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects. ↗

— Anita Hill

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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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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

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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

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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

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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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