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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
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"Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny."

"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."

"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."

"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."

"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."

"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."

"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best."

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."
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