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"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."

"Be different to make a difference."

"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."

"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work."

"I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work."
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