Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.


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As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
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I don't do interviews under false pretenses.
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Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for play...
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I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's wri...
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I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree...
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an ex...
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I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write o...
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, bu...
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have...
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My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally ...
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Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man...
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Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...
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I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We...
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GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
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There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
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Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
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Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
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One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
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Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
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Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
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As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
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