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" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "

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" I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing. "

" We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. "

" 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. "

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

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

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" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "

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

" For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. "

" 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. "

" I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. "

" 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. "

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

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" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

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

" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

" There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. "

" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "

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

" I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. "

" Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? "

" When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. "

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "

" Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen. "

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

" I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. "