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"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
Change
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."
Movies
"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."
God
"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."
People
"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing."
Power
"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."
Family
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
Past
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
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"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
Movies
"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."
Politics
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