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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.


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FLOYD SKLOOT Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Sa...
FLOYD SKLOOT One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgett...
FLOYD SKLOOT My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a mome...
FLOYD SKLOOT At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow s...
FLOYD SKLOOT When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
FLOYD SKLOOT For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
FLOYD PATTERSON I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
FLOYD PATTERSON Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
FLOYD PATTERSON The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step clo...
FLOYD PATTERSON CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
FLOYD ABRAMS I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
FLOYD ABRAMS I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
FLOYD ABRAMS I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
FLOYD ABRAMS It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
FLOYD ABRAMS CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
FLOYD ABRAMS No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
FLOYD ABRAMS It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
FLOYD ABRAMS My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
FLOYD ABRAMS I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
FLOYD ABRAMS I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
FLOYD ABRAMS I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
FLOYD ABRAMS Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
FLOYD ABRAMS I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
FLOYD ABRAMS Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
FLOYD ABRAMS So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
FLOYD ABRAMS When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
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