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" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "

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" The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. "

" My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back. "

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" I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. "

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" A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning. "

" Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my contract run out?' And I realize my contract ran out at the end of four seasons. "

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