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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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My home has always been show business.

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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: December 8th, 1925

Died: May 16th, 1990

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