Caryl Churchill Quotes
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.
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Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.
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The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
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Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.
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Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
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When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
