"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

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"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

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"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

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"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

Reason

"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."

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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

God

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

Film

"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."

Eye

"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."

Thought

"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

Acting

"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."

Instinct

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

God

"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."

Act