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" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "

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" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

" When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. "

" If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. "

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

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" I take every possible side. "

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. "

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" The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. "

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" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

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

" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "

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" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "

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" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

" In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays. "

" To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him. "

" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "

" When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. "

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" I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. "

" I'm attracted to the past. "