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Life Is Like A B-picture Script! It Is That Corny. If I Had My Life Story Offered To Me To Film, I'd Turn It Down.

The Biggest Lie Is The Lie We Tell Ourselves In The Distorted Visions We Have Of Ourselves, Blocking Out Some Sections, Enhancing Others. What Remains Are Not The Cold Facts Of Life, But How We Perceive Them. That's Really Who We Are.

Unfortunately, Once I Did Learn To Smoke, I Couldn't Stop. I Escalated To Two Packs A Day Very Quickly, And Stayed That Way For About Ten Years. When I Decided To Stop, I Adopted The Method That My Father Had Used When He Quit. He Would Carry A Cigarette In His Shirt Pocket, And Every Time He Felt Like Smoking, He Would Pull Out The Cigarette And Confront It: "who Stronger? You? Me?" Always The Answer Was The Same: "i Stronger." Back The Cigarette Would Go, Until The Next Craving. It Worked For Him, And It Worked For Me.

Fame Is As Much About Luck As It Is About Talent, Perhaps More.

My Mother And My Father Were Illiterate Immigrants From Russia. When I Was A Child They Were Constantly Amazed That I Could Go To A Building And Take A Book On Any Subject. They Couldn't Believe This Access To Knowledge We Have Here In America. They Couldn't Believe That It Was Free.