Caryl Churchill Quotes
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I like to discover new things.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.
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Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.
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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
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As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.
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Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
