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.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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How does one get bored of life?
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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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.
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I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.
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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
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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.
