David Hare Quotes

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• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

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  Change, Weather, Littles

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• Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

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  Advice, Outcomes, Investment

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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  Strong, Adversity, Two

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• Smiles are the language of love.

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  Love, Smile, Language

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• The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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  Art, Theatre, Done

  "The Playwright as Historian". Sunday Times Magazine, November 26, 1978.

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• No one but a fool is always right.

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  Fool

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• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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  Wind, Sailing, Sail

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• Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

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  Art, Writing, Style

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

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  Running, Father, Winning

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• I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

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  Thinking

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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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.

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  Creative, Different, Hue

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

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  Life Is, Ends, End Of The Road

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

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  Important, Crafts, Speak

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• I believe love opens people up.

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  Believe, People, I Believe

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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  Government, Stories, Tvs

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• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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  Poetry, Century, Prose

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• For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.

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  Thinking, Important, Looks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

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  Winning, Majority, Don't Like Me

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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  Nature, Keys, Poetry

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• I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.

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  Believe, Thinking, Play

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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  Stupid, Inability, Language

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• One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

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  Getting Older, Vitality, Walks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The future of American film lies on television.

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  Lying, Television, Film

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• The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

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  Writing, Crafts, Dialogue

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• If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

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  Character, People, Easy

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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