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The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
David Hare
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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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St Leonards
East Sussex
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An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
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I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
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I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.
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No one but a fool is always right.
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Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
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I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
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[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.
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Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
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One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
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My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
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I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
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I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
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If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
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Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.
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