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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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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."
"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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