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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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"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up."
"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It's not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can't tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend's well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?"
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."
"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."
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"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."
"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 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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