"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

Ability, Wrong, Years

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"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done."

Time, Makeup

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

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"It was either therapy or die."

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"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

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"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

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"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

Acting, Europe, Fighting, Job

"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

Aspiration, Aspirations, Film

"A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material."

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"Comeback is a good word, man."

Man, Word

"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."

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