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"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
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"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."

"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."

"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."

"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."

"But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."


"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."


"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
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