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Howard Barker Quotes

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: June 28, 1946

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Good Play Audience Through Certain

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

Great Movies Satire Twisted Social

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

Thinking End You Want Falling Up

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Stephen Sondheim

Way Writer Some Every Spoken Ever

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Drive Thinking You Know Important

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Loved You Movies Out Who Figure

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

Fight Die You Back Down Up

I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.

Jonathan Maberry

Work King Win Think Hell Nice

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Christopher Alexander

Nature World Isolation View You

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love Soul Love Is Two Single Bodies

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Sad Feel You Nice Cry Nothing

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

William Morris Hunt

Work Painting Others Going Working

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.

Education Nature Opportunities Better

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