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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."

"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."

"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."

"I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process."

"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."

"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
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