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“I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.”
Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009. 
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“I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.”
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“I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.”
Source : "Angel's Alexis Denisof goes post-apocalyptic in a new web series". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2012.
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“To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjold, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace...”
Source : "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.
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“Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.”
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“When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.”
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“A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.”
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“I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.”
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“I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.”
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“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”
Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media
