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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.
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When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
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When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
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When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
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When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
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When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.
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When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
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When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
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When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.
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When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
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When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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