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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."
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"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."
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"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
Money

"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."
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"Just let the wardrobe do the acting."
Acting

"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
Baby

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
Ability

"When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women."
Woman

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."
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