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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."

"I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!"

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."

"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."

"We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away."

"Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional."
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"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."

"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more."

"We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."

"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."

"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."
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