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" Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you. "

Michael Cimino

Politics

World

You

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" All one has to do is look at old footage of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and think of the people beneath those bombs. It's horrific. "

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" There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam. "

" Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember. "

" Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle. "

" I wouldn't look pretty as a woman. "

" Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up. "

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Anybody

Bitter

" There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best. "

" Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually. "

" I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work. "

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" I never second-guess myself. "

" When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men. "

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Want

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