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"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."
"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."
"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."
"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
"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."
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