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"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."
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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
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"I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do."
"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."
"In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there."
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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