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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
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"There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?'"
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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."


"I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad."
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"It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that."
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"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
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"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
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"I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted."
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"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."


"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on."
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"Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns."
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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
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"My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."


"I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced."
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