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

David Hare

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of Godâ€™s gifts!”
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.”
“The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.”

Source : Anne Ursu (2008). “The Siren Song”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.”
“But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.”
“Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.97, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!”

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