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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.
David Hare
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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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St Leonards
East Sussex
Sir David Hare
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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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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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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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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
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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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Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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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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Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
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The future of American film lies on television.
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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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An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
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