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

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Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
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Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.
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My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
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I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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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.
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The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
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