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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."

"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."

"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."

"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."

"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."

"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."
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