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“I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.”
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“In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.”
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“Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.”
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“It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.”
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“I'm more afraid of marriage than death.”
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“Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.”
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“The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.”
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“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
Source : Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.
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“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.”
Source : F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, December 14, 1971.
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“We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'”
