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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze."

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Stephen King Author
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"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

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Katie Holmes Actress
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"What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me."

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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
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"At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were."

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Clive James Writer
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"One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it."

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Clive James Writer
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"She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny."

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