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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
Shakespeare
"Nature has different times."
Nature
"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
Poetry
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
Music
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
Music
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
Music
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
Imagination
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Music
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
Life
"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
Thought
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