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" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "

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" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "

" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "

" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "

" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "

" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "

" I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "

" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "