"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

-- Bob Woodward

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“As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.”
“. . . All artistsâ€™ work is autobiographical. Any writerâ€™s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."”
“The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?”
“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.”
“That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan
“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”

Source : "Patrick Swayze on Cancer: 'I Want to Last Until They Find a Cure'" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2008.
“Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.”

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