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" My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions. "

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" Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. "

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" Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. "

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" Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. "

Interdependence

" It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. "

" I've always been a writer. "

" Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station. "

" My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. "

" We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. "

" The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that. "

" You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. "

" The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. "

" I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. "

" The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. "