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"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."

"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."

"I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it."

"Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell."

"I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years."

"Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot."

"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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