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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
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"What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line."
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"The statists want to control the economy."
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"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."
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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
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"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."
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"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."
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"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."
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"It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more."
Now
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
Style
"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
Life
"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
Faith
"I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century."
Work
"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Money
"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
Comedy
"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
Life
"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
Work
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