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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other.
I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.
Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.
When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.
I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.