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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."
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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
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"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."
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"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."
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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."
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"I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person."
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"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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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."
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"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
Danger
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
People
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
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