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"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."

"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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"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."

"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."


"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."


"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."


"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."


"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."


"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
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