Caryl Churchill Quotes

• What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

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  Dream, Real, Awake

  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?

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  Dust, Wings, Feet

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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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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  Thinking, Alive, Pretending

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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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  Leadership, Women, May

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• You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

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  Disappear

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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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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  Cheer, Ninety Nine, Doe

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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.

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  Children, Fall, Clouds

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black

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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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  Writing, Play, People

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• Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

  Caryl Churchill

  Mean, Spirit, Painting

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• You can't win every week.

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  Winning, Week, Can't Win

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

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  Fun, Party, Kind

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

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  Flower, If I Could, Ifs

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

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  Sweet, Travel, Home

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Top Girls”, p.11, A&C Black

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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.

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  Dog, Night, Tyrants

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

  Caryl Churchill

  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Top Girls”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

  Caryl Churchill

  White, Paper, Carols

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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 Churchill

  Real, Light, Space

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