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Derek Jacobi

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

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Donna Grant

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

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Donna Grant

"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."

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Donna Grant

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty."

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Donna Grant

"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."

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Donna Grant

"I don't really view communism as a bad thing."

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Donna Grant

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

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Donna Grant

"Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English."

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Donna Grant

"When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that."

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Donna Grant

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

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Derek Jacobi
"It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization."

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Derek Jacobi
"I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!"

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Derek Jacobi
"I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out."

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Derek Jacobi
"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that."

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Derek Jacobi
"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."

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Derek Jacobi
"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."

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Derek Jacobi
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."

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Derek Jacobi
"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."

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Derek Jacobi
"He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like."

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Derek Jacobi
"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

Communism

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