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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.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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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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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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I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
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I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.
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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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Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like In The Bedroom, you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.
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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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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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