- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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