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"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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"When you do not bother anyone at night, does anyone bother you? No one scolds you at night, do they? During the daytime, you create interferences, and that is why you suffer. Nature's law is such that not a single difficulty will affect you, provided you do not interfere. All that affects you is your own interferences."
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"Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially."
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"I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen."
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"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
Truth
"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
Age
"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
Conflict
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
People
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War
"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
Heart
"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
War
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
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"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
Heaven
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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