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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.