"Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap."
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"The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else."
"Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have."
"New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it."
"In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap."
"Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly."
"People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it."
"I am a living soap opera."
"I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?"
"Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap."
"Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap."
"He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear."
"Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap."
"I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama."