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"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."
"To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom."
"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."
"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
"Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want."
"I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist."
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"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."
"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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