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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.


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IRVING KIRSCH The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT