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" A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. "

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" In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. "

" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "

" In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

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" I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit. "

" It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. "

" I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. "

" The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care! "

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

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" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "

" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "

" The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. "

" It is better to be quotable than to be honest. "

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" When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' "

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" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "