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Somebody Talked Me Into Writing An Autobiography About Six Or Seven Years Ago. And I Said I'd Try. We Talked Into A Tape Recorder, And After A Couple Of Months, I Said, To Hell With It. I Was So Depressed. It Was Like Saying, 'this Is The End.' I Was More Interested In What The Hell Was Coming The Next Day Or The Next Week.

-Rupert Murdoch

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Somebody Talked Me Into

Rupert Murdoch

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Somebody Talked Me Into Writing An Autobiography About Six Or Seven Years Ago. And I Said I'd Try. We Talked Into A Tape Recorder, And After A Couple Of Months, I Said, To Hell With It. I Was So Depressed. It Was Like Saying, 'this Is The End.' I Was More Interested In What The Hell Was Coming The Next Day Or The Next Week.

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