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"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."

"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

"I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be."
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"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."

"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
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