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"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
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"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
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"Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented."


"You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck."


"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."


"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."


"When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges."


"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
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