"Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone."

-- Ayn Rand

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“Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.”
“I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.”

Source : "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.
“Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
“How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.”

Source : "After the flood" by Brian Keenan, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.
“Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.”
“I'm so accustomed to being alone.”
“I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .”
“As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.”

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