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" I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. "

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" Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. "

" There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. "

" The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness. "

" It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. "

" Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember. "

" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "

" Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. "

" It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. "

" The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv. "

" We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. "

" American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. "

" The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. "

" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "

" In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. "

" The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. "

" If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. "

" The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. "

" A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. "

" It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. "

" I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" I hate vacations. There's nothing to do. "

" In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other. "

" I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. "

" I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. "

" I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. "

" It's upsetting to be a man in our society. "

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" I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. "

" The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all. "