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" I've always worried that one day women would figure out how to get along without us and they would be able to reproduce unilaterally, like sponges. "
Lawrence Wright
Always
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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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" A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. "
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" If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long! "
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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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" A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page. "
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" To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. "
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" Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. "
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" For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness. "
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Blue
Hot
" When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant. "
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" Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance. "
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" I guess I made a resolution years ago that I would only do things that were only really important or really fun. "
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Fun
Things
" Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact that religious beliefs were sometimes transformative, sometimes a motivation for violence. "
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Conflict
World
" I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. "
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Think
" 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. "
Lawrence Wright
You
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Talking
" Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it. "
Lawrence Wright
West
Past
Nothing
" 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. "
Lawrence Wright
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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. "
Lawrence Wright
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Gender
Loss
" The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo. "
Lawrence Wright
Teach
Life
Man
" I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans. "
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Conflict
" I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings. "
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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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Religion
" If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people. "
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" I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways. "
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" People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do. "
Lawrence Wright
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World
" I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife. "
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Terrorism
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" People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful. "
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People
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Want
" 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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Think
World
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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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20th Century
Religions
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" Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that. "
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