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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."

"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."

"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."

"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."

"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."

"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."


"I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say."


"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."


"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."
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