“Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.”
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I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.
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Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
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I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.
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I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
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The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
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