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Edward Bond

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

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"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."

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"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."

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"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

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"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."

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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

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"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."

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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."
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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."
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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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