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"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
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"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."

"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."

"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."

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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
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