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 didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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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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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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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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I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
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I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.
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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.
