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" What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? "

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

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. "

" Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. "

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

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" I'm attracted to the past. "

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" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "

" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. "

" My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. "

" When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees. "

" All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. "

" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "

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England

" If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

" 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. "

" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

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

" I'm a very boring person. "

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

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

" The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. "

" Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. "

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" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

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