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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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Experience
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Adventure
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