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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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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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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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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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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There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.
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If God is as real as the shadow of the Great War on Armistice Day, need we seek further reason for making a place for God in our thoughts and lives? We shall not be concerned if the scientific explorer reports that he is perfectly satisfied that he has got to the bottom of things without having come across either.
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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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Love wins when everything else will fail.
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We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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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.
