merging...

"...at some point you have to give yourself over to what you want to be..."

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 "The hardest thing to achieve in any art form--really, in anything at all--is simplicity. "We always complicate everything, either out of dishonesty or out of a desire to show off or prove something.

 Direct communication is powerful and difficult and dangerous, but whenever I could achieve it, I was good. "You have to commit yourself wholly to your task, to your script, to your director, to everyone with whom you work, and you have to be true and clear all the time.

 "That's the hard part, and we all thought it was about acting or about writing or about proving ourselves. What it was really about was exposing ourselves, utilizing ourselves.

 "It's a sadistic sort of riddle I'm going to give to you, but the hardest things is to be simple, to relinquish the artist in order to become one." - Marlon Brando/July 1990

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