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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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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
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Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.
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Sirens wailed the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
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I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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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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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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Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.
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Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.
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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.
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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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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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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.
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