"When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me."
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"There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.“
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"I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was."
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"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."
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"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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