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"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford."
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"My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see."
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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"When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame."
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"Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don't be afraid to give up the good for the great."
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"The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars."
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"Life is a dream so dream big!"
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"All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky."
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"Dream big, but stay humble."
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"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"
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"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
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"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
Home

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."
Actor

"In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work."
Work

"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
Business

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."
Change

"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
Sacrifice

"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
Creativity

"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
Thought

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
Decision-Making

"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."
Work
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