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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever."
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"That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show."
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"I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished."
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"The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite."
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"My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs."
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"I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory."
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"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
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"I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence."
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"The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made."
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"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."
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"With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
Public
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever."
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"No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid."
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"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
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