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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. ↗

— Ken Follett

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If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. ↗

— Johnny Depp

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The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' ↗

— Johnny Depp

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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. ↗

— James Forrestal

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There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. ↗

— John Foster

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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. ↗

— Garrett Fort

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Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. ↗

— Bob Fosse

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ↗

— John W. Foster

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