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"Even a true artist does not always produce art."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."

"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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