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"Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny."

"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."

"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."

"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."

"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."
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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."

"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."

"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."

"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."

"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."
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