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"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."

"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."

"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."
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