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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."

"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."


"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."


"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."


"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."


"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."


"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."


"Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice."


"Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."
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