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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it."
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"The time has come for professional jurors."
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"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional."
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"What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river."
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"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued."
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"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."
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"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
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"I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating."
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"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer."
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"I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books."
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"When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice."
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