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" 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. "

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" I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. "

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

" If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. "

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" Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. "

" I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.' "

" Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. "

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

" President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.' "

" My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. "

" My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. "

" Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. "

" Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. "

" I love the British. "

" It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. "

" It's only words... unless they're true. "

" I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. "

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

" I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth. "

" People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. "

" I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. "

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" I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. "

" I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. "

" When I started out I was a failed actor. "

" Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it. "

" The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. "

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" My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. "