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"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
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"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."

"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."

"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
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"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."

"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."

"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."

"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."

"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."

"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
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