Harold Pinter Quotes
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
