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“The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.”
Source : "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002. 
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“It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.”
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“Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.”
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“It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”
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“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today”
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“Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.”
Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.
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“In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.”
Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
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“It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.”
Source : Margaret Widdemer (1917). “The Wishing-ring Man”
