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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Oliver Stone

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.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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Concern Lying Real
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going 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
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
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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