"Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

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"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it."

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"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."

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"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."

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"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."

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