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"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."

"Life begins at the edge of your fears."

"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."

"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."

"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."

"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."
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