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"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."

"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."

"Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican."

"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

"The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena."

"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."

"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
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"I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me."


"I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation."


"Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me."


"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."


"It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby."


"When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top."


"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement."


"A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same."
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