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"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
America
"I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop."
Love
"November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays."
Books
"Biblical names are hot again."
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"Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community."
Community
"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."
Bible
"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."
Fiction
"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."
Bible
"Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent."
History
"I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community."
Community
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