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"This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself."
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"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."
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"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
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"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."
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"I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends."
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"I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over."
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"This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it."
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"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
Society
"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
Word
"I hate vacations. There's nothing to do."
Hate
"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
Amusement
"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
Drama
"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."
People
"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
World
"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."
Money
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
Death
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
Battle
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