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I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.
There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.
When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
I'm quite interested in doing a film about fashion. As someone with no fashion taste whatsoever, I think it would be good for me.
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.
I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.