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"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"Our differences are the real treasures."

"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."

"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."

"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

"It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good."

"Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents."
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."

"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."

"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"

"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both."
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