- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020