Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISBut find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
AL LEWISI prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISThe United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISI have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWISI think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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