"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."

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"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

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"Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter."

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"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."

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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."

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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

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"I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield."

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"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."

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"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."

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"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."

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