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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

That's sort of what I felt ... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.

Don't break your own heart.

Politics has become entertainment.

There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want .

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

EGAD was a coffeehouse, built for the kids of Harrisonville by a middle-aged Jesus Freak. Its letters meant "Everybody Give A Damn!