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"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
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"There's nothing glamorous about being dead."
Being
"Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them."
People
"My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives."
Sister
"Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette."
First
"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
Government
"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
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"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
Father
"Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking."
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"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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"When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset."
Woman
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