George Bailey Quotes
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
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Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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All you can take with you is that which you've given away.
