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"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."

"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."

"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."

"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."

"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever."

"I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them."

"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats."

"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."

"And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening."

"I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it."

"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too."

"And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust."
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