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

• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• Nothing should be noticed.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Should
  • Nothing
  • Noticed

• '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
  • Faith
  • Trouble

• 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
  • See

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

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
  • Conversations

• 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

• My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Song
  • Church

• 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

• The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • May
  • Man
  • Patience

• And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Time
  • World
  • Lonely

• Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Future
  • Growth

• A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hate

• In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

  

  Lucy Powell

• 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