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" I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. "

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

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "

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

" There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny. "

" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "

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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. "

" When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams. "

" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "

" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "

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" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "

" I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. "

" I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. "

" I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. "

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" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "

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

" 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 flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "