Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
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What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.
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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
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Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
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I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.
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I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.
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A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
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Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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I think you have lots of actors who would much rather do a wonderful part at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but then you have to take a two-line part in a TV thing to pay the bills.
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Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.
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Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.
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Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
