"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

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"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

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"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

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"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"

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