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“Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.”
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“Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
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“The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.”
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“Be interested rather than interesting”
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“Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.”
Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “The Niagara River: Poems”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.”
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“Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.”
