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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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