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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre."
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"I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there."
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"We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth."
Discovery


"And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you."
Power


"The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety."
Psychology


"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
Imagination


"Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it's a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are."
Ethics


"He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat."
Communication


"It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia."
Reflection


"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."
Decision-Making


"In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational."
Emotion


"The light of artistic creation is also blinding.The artist can't see the suffering he causesto those around him. And the'll neverunderstand the purity of his goal, how the heatof his invention won't melt the ice in his heart.He must be ruthless!No religion, no purpose except this:Make something perfect before you die.Life is short, art is for all time."
Creativity
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