Richard Eyre quotes
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“I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.”
-- Richard EyreSource : "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.
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“We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.”
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“I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.”
-- Richard EyreSource : "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
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“Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.”
-- Richard EyreSource : "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.
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“I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.”
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“I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.”
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“What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.”
-- Richard EyreSource : "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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