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" There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. "
Elaine Stritch
Lasting
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" I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York. "
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" What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. "
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