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		This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Bovard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bernheimer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Webb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. L. Doctorow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Futterman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Macnee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Benanti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Bruhl 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fat Joe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Geoffrey S. Fletcher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Darryl Pinckney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbra Streisand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alex Lifeson 
			 
			
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		The racism of the Nazis threatened to make whatever we had experienced look like child's play. If they could be so brutal to the Jews, what would they do to the blacks? So large numbers of black young men and women rallied to the defence of the empire. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Abrahams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Bovard