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"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."
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"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."

"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."

"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"

"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."

"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."

"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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