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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

I think it’s an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

It wasn’t so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I’ve got my feet firmly on the ground, I can’t see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I’ve always thought of myself as a reporter.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.