David Hare Quotes

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

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• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Health

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Same
  • Everyone

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • Think
  • Learning

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Time
  • Think
  • Funny

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• It is processes that are important.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Important

• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

  

  David Ogden Stiers

• He always said nobody is promised tomorrow, and he lived life to the fullest. I do that. You can't take life for granted, and Puck never did. I'm real glad I was his teammate. He taught me everything I know about how to act, how to carry yourself, on and off the field.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Field
  • Granted
  • Teammate

• I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'

  

  Jim Parsons
  • People
  • Waiting

• The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

  

  David Hare
  • Writing
  • Business