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How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you have to go back to yourself - which is a little bit scary.

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Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats.

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Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.

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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

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Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

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I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called 'Meathooked.'

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I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

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Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.

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Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 7th, 1948

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