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"My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain."
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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
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"I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."
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"Pain is the University of Life."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air."
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"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."
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"I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too."
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"Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds."
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"Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way."
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"I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything."
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"I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted."
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"I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work."
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"Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture."
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"I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley."
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