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"There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it."

"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs."

"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"

"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."

"Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move."

"If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess."

"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."

"The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye."
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