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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."

"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."

"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."

"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"

"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."

"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
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