"King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare â€” or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear."

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Source : "Scofield's Lear voted the greatest Shakespeare performance". Royah Nikkhah, The Telegraph, August 22, 2004.

Paul Scofield

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“We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.”

Source : J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.8, Discovery House
“A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.”
“I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.”
“I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.”
“My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.”
“The big art is our life.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press
“An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.”
“I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.”

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