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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today."
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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."


"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."


"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."


"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."


"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."


"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."


"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."


"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."


"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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