Caryl Churchill quotes
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“There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.”
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“England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black
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“How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2013). “Top Girls”, p.11, A&C Black
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“We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.”
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“I'd go without food if I could have a flower.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“Parties are a cruel kind of fun.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“You can't win every week.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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“[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.”
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“You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.”
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“Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.”
-- Caryl ChurchillSource : 1996 Comment as BBC TV pundit at Euro 96.
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“Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.”
-- Caryl Churchill
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