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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.


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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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