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“I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.”
Source : "Brian McDermott: Credit? Just give it away, I'm genuinely not bothered". Interview with Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012. 
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“I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.”
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“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”
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“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”
Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.
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“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
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“The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented his reputation, largely because of the movie version. Another battle of wills, it was the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of lesser composer Antonio Salieri.”
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“As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!”
Source : Interview with Thomas Beardy, Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper), 1990.
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“I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
