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" My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. "

Peter Landesman

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" I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. "

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" Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. "

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" When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability. "

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" I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush. "

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" People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. "

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" Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. "

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" Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify. "

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" I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League. "

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