Political correctness has become a straightjacket.


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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go...
GARY SINISE
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t...
GARY SINISE
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ...
GARY SINISE
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run...
GARY SINISE
Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
GARY SINISE
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
GARY SHTEYNGART
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART
In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN
I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN