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" I can't remember what my first script was. "

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" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "

" People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. "

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" Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self. "

" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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