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Carroll O'Connor Quotes: I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
         

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.


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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.



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