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"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."
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"To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are."

"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."

"Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home."

"It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables."

"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."

"Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try."

"If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going."

"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."
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"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist."

"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."

"Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at."

"Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage."
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