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Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

David Hare

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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Television Director
Theatrical Director
Writer
St Leonards
East Sussex
Sir David Hare
Professionally
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
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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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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
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