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
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Sex

• 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
  • Past
  • Learning

• 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
  • Fun
  • Car

• It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.

  

  Bill Scott
  • Money
  • Abuse

• I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Age
  • Wedding

• So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • Party
  • Shoes

• There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Good
  • Bad

• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Shopping
  • Hunting

• I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

  

  John Carney
  • Good

• From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city, every village, and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• 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