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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'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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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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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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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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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
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I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
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I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.
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Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.
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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.
