"I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation."

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Source : "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

Richard Eyre

#Live Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.”
“American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.”
“I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer”
“Europeâ€™s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”
“We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.”

Source : "Chelsea Clinton Endorses Hillary for President 2016" by Sami K. Martin, www.christianpost.com. June 17, 2013.
“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.”

Source : "'What a Pair of Lungs!': Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2017.

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