"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."

-- Harry J. Anslinger

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“Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.”
“God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.”
“They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.”
“Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief”
“When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.”
“First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.”
“We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.”
“After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.”

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