"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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"If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States."

Martin Van Buren, American President

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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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Lord Byron, British Poet

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Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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Charles Churchill, English Poet

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Alistair Cooke, American Journalist

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