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Sarah Bernhardt

"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."

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Asa Don Brown

"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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Asa Don Brown

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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Asa Don Brown

"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

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Asa Don Brown

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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Asa Don Brown

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

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Asa Don Brown

"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

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Asa Don Brown

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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Asa Don Brown

"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

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"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
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"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
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"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."
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"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."
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"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."
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"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."
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