"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."

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"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

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"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."

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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."

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