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"I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

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"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."

"So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things."

"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."

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"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."
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