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"Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous wretchedness, with the three women all complaining alternately about their wet hair/clothes and their respective distance from Talon, while the man himself is trying to maneuver his Paul Bunyan frame way too close to me."

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."

"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians."

"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it."

"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."
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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."

"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am."

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
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