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" I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. "

Lawrence Wright

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" When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot. "

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" Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. "

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" Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st. "

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" I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. "

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" The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself. "

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" It's their belief, their own will, that holds people in Scientology, even oftentimes when they have been abused. "

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" If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions. "

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" I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. "

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" Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. "

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" If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war. "

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" Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. "

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" Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance. "

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" In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored. "

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" What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive. "

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" From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly. "

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" There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. "

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" Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient. "

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" Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won't save it if it can't find a way to bring new members into the fold. "

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" Craziness doesn't have anything to do with how successful a religion might be. "

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" This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict. "

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" Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already. "

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" The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life. "

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" Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. "

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" I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. "

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" A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. "

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