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"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."

"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."

"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."

"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."

"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
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