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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."

"As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series."

"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."

"It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
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"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."


"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."


"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."


"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
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