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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
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"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."
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"I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person."
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"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."
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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."
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"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
Death

"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
Universe

"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
Running

"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
Technology

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
Design

"I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age."
Age

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
Music

"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
Fun

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."
Art

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."
Money
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