Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on
Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen.
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
But his father begged him not to publish the book. L.B. Mayer called me a traitor, ... 'I blame you for this,' he told my father, 'because you should have stopped him. We should deport him.' That was Hollywood. I often think it was like Venice under the doges.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.
Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
He thought they were the new art form.
I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
You can't eat your friends and have them too.
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
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