- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
- Budding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
- Evacuation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't always let people do their own thing.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
- Envious
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- Nov 07, 2020
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020