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"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings."
"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not."
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet."
"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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