"I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them."
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"The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind."
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"I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done."
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"If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life."
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"Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected."
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"The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore."
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"I'm one of the most fortunate guys around,I still get to do those kinds of movies, and then I get to do Green Lantern, and I get to do Buried with an auteur like Rodrigo Cortés. I enjoy that I can get away with that."
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"I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house."
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"Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language."
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"It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home.""
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"In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class."
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"I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted."
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"there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear."
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"I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work."
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"There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
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"A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit."
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"I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party."
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"I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had."
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"The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind"
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