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a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

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Glenda Jackson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: May 9
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it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.
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To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.
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One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.
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I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.
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[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.
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To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.
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comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.
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I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.
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If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.
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I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.
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