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What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

David Hare

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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Actor
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St Leonards
East Sussex
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