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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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