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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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I burn with no causes.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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Pirates could happen to anyone.
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.