Tag: Laura Hillenbrand

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Laura Hillenbrand travel

Laura Hillenbrand | travel

I am disabled, so I can’t travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

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Laura Hillenbrand sports

Laura Hillenbrand | sports

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.’

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Laura Hillenbrand morning

Laura Hillenbrand | morning

It only worked for a little while the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

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Laura Hillenbrand | imagination

I’m looking for a way out of here. I can’t have it physically, so I’m going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it’s just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he’s breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives – it’s my way of living vicariously.

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health Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand | health

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

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freedom Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand | freedom

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.

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Laura Hillenbrand | experience

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

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Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival

Quote from Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

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