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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'
Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.