TV news is not very instructive.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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