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" The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.' "

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" 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. "

" I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business. "

" 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. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

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

" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts of your nature, so I'm always grateful for that chance. "

" The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was. "

" When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to set, everyone would kind of work on it together. "

" As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working. "

" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "

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

" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "

" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "

" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "

" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "

" I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake. "

" What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy. "

" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "

" 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. "

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that. "

" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "

" My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge. "

" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "

" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "