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"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."
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"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."

"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
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