Caryl Churchill Quotes
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
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If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
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When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
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Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.
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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
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I don't question things when they're going right.
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The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.
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What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
