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"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."
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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."

"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."

"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."

"I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others."

"The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more."

"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls."

"The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions."
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"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."

"Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real."

"And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels."

"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."

"And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays."

"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."

"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."
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