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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
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I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
Kenneth Branagh
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Freedom
Creative
World
Naughty
Invention
Energy
Think
Films
Entertaining
Shakespeare
Inspiring
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Contain
Often
Short
Short Films
Deed
Good Deed
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The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
Patti Smith
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Sacrifice
Creation
Lust
Resonant
Everything
Drawn
Betrayal
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Prophecy
Poetry
Writers
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Bob
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Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Shakespeare
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Drama
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Log Cabin
Hut
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Cabin
Volumes
Contain
First Time
Does
Odd
Pioneer
Feudal
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Henry
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Benmont Tench
Work
Living
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New
Around
Era
Yeats
Dickens
Where
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Whitman
Level
Presenting
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.
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