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" I burn with no causes. "
Tom Stoppard
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" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "
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" 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. "
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" All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. "
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" In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' "
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" I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. "
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" My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it. "
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" I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. "
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" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "
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Me
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" I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. "
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" Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' "
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" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "
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" My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. "
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" Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. "
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" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "
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Pretenses
Interviews
" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "
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People
Know
Nice
" You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. "
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Work
Art
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" My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. "
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True
" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "
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" If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "
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" 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 once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. "
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" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "
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" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "
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" The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. "
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