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" I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. "
Teri Garr
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" I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays. "
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" Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from. "
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