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I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
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There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.
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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
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I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
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I was never cool as a kid.
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I am always running away from something.
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There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.'
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
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I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
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I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
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When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.
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I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.
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London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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