“If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?”

—  Michael Douglas

As quoted in "The Unstoppable Michael Douglas" in The Christian Science Monitor (15 October 1996) https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1015/101596.feat.film.1.html

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