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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
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"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
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"There is a price to pay for accomplishment."
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"The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever."
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"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."
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"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment."
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"I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments."
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"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."
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"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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"So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors."
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"The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it."
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"These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time."
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"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter."
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"The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps."
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"They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old."
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"It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed."
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