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The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.
All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.
The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.