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" My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. "

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" My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. "

" Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. "

" If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. "

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" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "

" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "

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" Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. "

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" Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. "

" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "

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