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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

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I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

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I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

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I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

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A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 20th, 1924

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