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CILLA BLACK I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. LEWIS BLACK Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. CONRAD BLACK I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old. REBECCA BLACK Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a ho... LEWIS BLACK I humbly apologise for reality Television. CILLA BLACK I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know. CILLA BLACK I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an... CILLA BLACK You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned. LEWIS BLACK Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem... HOLLY BLACK The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of governme... HUGO BLACK I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and th... LEWIS BLACK Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. LEWIS BLACK