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" I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes. "
Warren Beatty
Feel
Always
I Am
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" When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. "
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" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "
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" It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. "
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" I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies. "
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