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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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