"You can stroke people with words."
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"Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own."
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"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence."
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"They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people."
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"I believe in equal rights for all people."
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"We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved."
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"Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible."
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"People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer."
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"People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable."
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"I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience."
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"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing."
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"I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think."
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"A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
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"Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."
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"I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers."
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"If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked."
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"Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?"
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"If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind."
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"I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused."
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"The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him."
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