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The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. ”
There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. ”
Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. ”
So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that. ”
It leaves a good legacy to have five records. ”
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ”
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. ”
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. ”
Normality is death. ”
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ”