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"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."

"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."

"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."
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"The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea."


"My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all."


"I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."


"It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership."


"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."


"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."


"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."


"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."
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