- 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