"Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Gregory Doran

#Helping Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Juliet Quotes

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.”
“Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.”

Source : Mick Napier (2004). “Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out”, Heinemann Drama
“I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?”
“Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.58, Penguin
“Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books
“Catching myself in the moment. Then I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Whenever I can catch myself having a negative thought, I do Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono by saying to myself the phrases "I love you," "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you" in any particular order.”
“Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.”

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