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“Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier,”

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I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

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I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue…

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What makes us threaten the things we want most?

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Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But…

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“But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for him and…

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I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who…

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Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before…

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I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

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Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the…

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While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very…

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I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

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As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

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As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

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