"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

Failure, Film, Television, Theater

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"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

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