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" For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated. "
Ron Silver
Motivated
First
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" I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do. "
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" But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. "
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" I kind of dwindled into acting. "
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" I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. "
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" I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. "
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" Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. "
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" I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage. "
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" I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up. "
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" I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy. "
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" I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. "
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