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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
About Finally Growing Growing Up
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
America Begins Change Dinner
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Baby Been Courage Mother
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Always Been Concentrated Enemy
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Around Days Feeling Ideas
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Any Away Best Business
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Call Dislike Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Drama I Think Life Much
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Desk Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Always Around Different Doing
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Find Friends Involved Out
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Admitted Always Passions Ruled
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Create Entertainment Eyes Interest
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There's no such thing as an original sin.

Original Original Sin Sin Thing
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

About Character Eating Fellow
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Chance College Football Four
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Across Age Barbed Wire Borders
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Actually Bureau Disappear Earth
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Balancing Budget Closer Come
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Around Been Creator Environmental
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Goal Going Hard Life
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Along Better Government Invent
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Also Country Countrymen Love
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Always Wonderful Get Know
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Because Everybody Harmony Just
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Again Always Because Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Going Just Need Obscurity
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Acts Bend Change Each
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Challenging Difficult Filled Lived
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