Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
Fame is worth less than service.
I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush has great respect for his father, and so did President Coolidge, whose father was also in government, albeit in a smaller way.
Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C. C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.
Nick Young embarrassed himself. Carlos Boozer embarassed himself. Jordan Hill embarrassed himself.
The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play. . . there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
All that you've loved is all you own