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"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
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"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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