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		Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Abbott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Cook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Humphries 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imre Kertesz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manuel Puig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ranbir Kapoor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachelle Lefevre 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gaby Hoffmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pablo Sandoval 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cornelia Funke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Loretta Lynn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hal Price 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Abbott