British - Playwright | January 26, 1946 -
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
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You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
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If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
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There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
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I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
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