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" To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? "

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" Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. "

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" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

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

" A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. "

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

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

" If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. "

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" For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. "

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

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" Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. "

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

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" 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. "