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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

"Who I am? Am I thinking?"

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."

"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
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"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."


"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."


"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."


"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."


"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."


"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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