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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
Reading
"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."
Family
"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
People
"In art, the obvious is a sin."
Art
"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."
Choice
"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names."
Politics
"Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity."
Humanity
"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
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"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."
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"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
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