"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."

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Howard Barker

#Play Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.”
“In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.”
“One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.”
“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”
“I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.”
“If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.”
“Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.4, Booklassic

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