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If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. — Robert Benchley
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. — W. E. B. Du Bois
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity… — Ralph Ellison
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… — Charles Bukowski
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything… — Mike Tyson
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be? — Gayle Forman
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a… — Pablo Casals
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he! — Robert Browning
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These… — Helen Fisher
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic… — Gary Lineker
It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called… — Chaim Potok
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. — Don Van Vliet
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. — George Gissing
Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ? — Henry Irving
Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink… — Ozzy Osbourne
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed… — Peter Altenberg
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. — John Bradshaw

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