Caryl Churchill Quotes
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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Dream and you shall become.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I do go to the gym five days a week.
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I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.
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You can't win every week.
