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“The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”
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“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”
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“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009. 
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“I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.”
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“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”
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“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
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“I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.”
Source : Salon, October 17, 1997.
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“I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.”
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“It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.”
