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"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."
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"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."
"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."
"I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"
"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet."
"Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret."
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"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."
"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."
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