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"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it."

"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."

"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."

"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"

"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."

"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"

"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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