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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman (1927) |
| Rodney Alexander, Politician (1946) |
| Gary Allan, Musician (1967) |
| Joseph Barbara, Actor (1967) |
| William Barclay, Theologian (1907) |
| Jimmy Cannon, Journalist (1973) |
| Jose Carreras, Musician (1946) |
| Milton H. Erickson, Psychologist (1901) |
| Shalom Harlow, Model (1973) |
| Nunnally Johnson, Director (1897) |
| Robert Aldrich, Director (1983) |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer (1963) |
| Shoeless Joe Jackson, Athlete (1951) |


