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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."
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