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"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."
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"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between."
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"It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts."
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"I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things."
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"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
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"I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them."
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"I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off."
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"Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease."
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"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year."
Christian


"Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer."
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"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents."
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