"One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.”
“A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.”
“At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.”
“Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”
“I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.”
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.”
“It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.”

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