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Alan Riding, reviewing Trevor Nunn/Ian MacKellen's King Lear:

"Nunn also places Shakespeare's illumination of human nature at the center of his production:  'What is man?  Why do we fear mortality?  Why do we need gods?  Fundamental questions to which his answers are uncompromising and uncomfortable."

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Tadeusz Baird, Rozmowy, Szkice, Refleksje (1998):

"Być artystą nie tylko z nazwy, to znaczy być z usposobienia marzycielem i umieć marzenia bez względu na cenę urzeczywistnić, a do tego siły woli."

["To be an artist not just in name only means to have a dreamer's nature, and to be capable of turning dreams into reality"]