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" I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. "
Robert Vaughn
Believe
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Hell
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" My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia. "
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" After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them. "
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" My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest. "
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" I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism. "
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" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "
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" I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried. "
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First
Now
" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "
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Example
Myself
" I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies. "
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" I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College. "
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Los Angeles
California
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" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "
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" Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. "
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Clear
Finally
" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
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Very
College
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" My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. "
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Speak
" Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. "
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Achievement
Always
Believe
" I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns. "
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Studying
Home
American
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
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Were
Members
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" In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike? "
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Marry
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