"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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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

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"We are capable of greatness."

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

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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."

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

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

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."

Tom Lehrer, American Musician

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

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

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"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

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"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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"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."

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