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• ‟ People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

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• ‟ I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

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• ‟ In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

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• ‟ You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

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• ‟ For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

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• ‟ I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

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• ‟ Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

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• ‟ I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

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• ‟ I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

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• ‟ Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

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• ‟ Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

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• ‟ We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

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• ‟ I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

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• ‟ I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

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• ‟ I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

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• ‟ People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

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