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I stay out of typecasting ruts.
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Ruts
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As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.
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Decline
Marketplace
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I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.
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Agents
Surround
Battery
Cocoon
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Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.
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Materialism
Panacea
So Many People
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You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.
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Motive
Profit
Capitalistic
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When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.
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Camper
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I've worked a lot in Europe, particularly Spain, which I like very much.
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Spain
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I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.
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Intention
Limitations
No Intention
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Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.
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Adam
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I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.
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Freelance
Strictly
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I didn't leave 'Bonanza' in pursuit of any particular goal. I left for my own good.
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Pursuit
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When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.
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Standard
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I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.
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Neurotic
Unhappy
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The number one show on television should be the most informative, educational and exciting show. 'Bonanza' is not that show.
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Educational
Informative
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I feel I am an aristocrat in my field of endeavor. My being part of 'Bonanza' was like Isaac Stern sitting in with Lawrence Welk.
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Endeavor
Isaac
Sitting
Aristocrat
Field
Stern
Lawrence
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Money isn't that important to me. My needs are primarily artistic. Mainly I'm interested in my own peace of mind, in knowing who I am and what I am.
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Artistic
Peace Of Mind
Mainly
Primarily
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There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.
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Consistent
Good Family
Mediocrity
Obvious
Offend
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I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive. It wears me down.
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Hostile
Psychological
Stamina
Vindictive
Time Me Down
Compromises
Prolonged
Wears
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If you're locked into a philosophy of nickels and dimes, then you have a pretty limited approach to life. I don't need a lot of money to live with dignity.
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Dignity
Locked
Life Money Live
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My problems with 'Bonanza' were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.
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Communication
Sophisticated
Comic Strip
Discussed
Strip
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For a long time after I left 'Bonanza,' I was considered too independent. That meant I got the rejects other actors could afford turning down. I did theater which I loved, but it cannot pay the bills.
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Bills
Independent
Left
Long Time
Pay
Rejects
Theater
Time Long Long Time
Afford
Considered
Meant
Loved
Turning
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I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.
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Ease
Definition
Life Mind Goals
Gently
Heavens
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As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and that you just end up a victim when you are totally honest in an environment where those around you arent. It's a matter of remaining true to yourself while continuing to move forward.
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Continuing
Cunning
Survival
Move Forward
Remaining
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