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- Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
- A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
- The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
- The complex develops out of the simple.