Caryl Churchill Quotes

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

Caryl Churchill

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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
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• I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Moving

• You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Audience
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• I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
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• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Whole
  • Undergone

• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Justice

• There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Great
  • Together
  • Period

• There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Different

• I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe

• A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Good

• I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Time
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• For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Game
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• I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'

  

  Fred Willard
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I really like the Evo from '2Fast.' That car is a lot of fun as a daily driver. They're really quick on the track, too, when they're set up right.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
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• I can earn more in a single weekend of convetioneering than I would in an entire month drawing comics. And I get a pretty high rate drawing comics.

  

  George Perez
  • High
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• I typically work out 20-30 minutes every morning to get the day started.

  

  Logan Green
  • Work
  • Morning

• The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• We haven't a won a game in this brutal month. It's been very difficult for us. You have to try to steal a win here or there, and we haven't done that.

  

  Chris Mooney
  • Game
  • Win
  • Months

• Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

  

  Caryl Churchill