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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."
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"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."
"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1."
"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels."
"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."
"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."
"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."
"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
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