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I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

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James Stewart
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: May 20
Died: 1997
Died: July 2
Aircraft Pilot
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Poet
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Jimmy Stewart
James Maitland Stewart
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I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.
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I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.
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I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.
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The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
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To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.
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Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
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