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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
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"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

"Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand."

"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody."

"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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