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"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect."
Love
"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."
Life
"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."
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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."
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"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out."
Music
"I love songs that are very autobiographical."
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"It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me."
Work
"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in."
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"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."
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"I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on."
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