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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Oliver Stone

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Cloud Important Thinking
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Animal Army Exercise
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Moments Past Tyranny
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States

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