David Hare Quotes
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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Pain is love.
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In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
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There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.
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From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
