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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."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Anybody can choose to relax but somebody must choose to pursue."
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"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."
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"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."
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"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."
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"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."
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"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."
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"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."
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"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
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"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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"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."
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