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Jean Cocteau Quotes
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau

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Category:
French Director Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 5, 1889
Date of Death:
October 11, 1963
Nationality:
French
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