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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."

"It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the News of the World. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder."

"When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming."

"Give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in."
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"I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!"

"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

"Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love."

"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

"I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true."

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."

"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."

"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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