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"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."
"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."
"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."
"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"
"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."
"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."
"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
"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."
"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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