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When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

Big Tree Ground Shakes
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Training Drama School Study
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Allowed Because Could Hostess
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Warhol Most Impactful Artist
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Real Shake Shakes Sweat
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Drama I Think Life Much
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I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare

Know Love Other Shakespeare
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

Running Believe Thinking
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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Will Fear
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Crucial Enough Even Ever
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Ambition Have Shakespeare Stakes
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Because Deliver Felt Green
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Fun Games Guy I Love
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I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Desire Never Just Lines
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Blows Blast Top Shakes
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Aim Fate Great Leave
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Grew Mark Mark Twain Reading
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

Game Shakes me Breaks me Hope
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I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Reason Content God Read
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