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" There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. "
Peter O'Toole
Always
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" A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' "
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