10/29/1984
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"I could not perform for 15 minutes the tasks that confront me here if I were not allowed to laugh."
"Joy must triumph over sorrow."
"Ford's is a theatre set apart."
"That's why we must fill this hall with song and dance and comedy and above all with the most triumphant sound known to man—the sound of joyous applause."