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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
"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."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"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."
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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