"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
-Carroll O'Connor
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"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."
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"Even a true artist does not always produce art."
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"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."
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"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."
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"Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."
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"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
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