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"I don't publish the books to make money, not at all."
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"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
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"I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig."
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"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
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"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
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"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
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"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
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"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that."
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"Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor."
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"You reach a point where you don't work for money."
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"I don't publish the books to make money, not at all."
Money
"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."
Books
"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities."
Art
"Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies."
Language
"If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas."
Intelligence
"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."
Now
"I'm not trying to do conceptual art."
Art
"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
Imagination
"I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much."
Books
"And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away."
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