"I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero."

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"I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero."

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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."

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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."

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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."

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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."

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"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost."

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