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The Room I wrote in 1957, and...

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Good writing excites me, and ...

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

I found the offer of a knight...

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

I've said it before, and I'll...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

I do tend to think that I've ...

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Analysis I take to be a scien...

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

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The whole brunt of the media ...

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

I'll tell you what I really t...

I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

I'm not committed as a writer...

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

The invasion of Iraq was a ba...

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Be careful how you talk about...

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Watching first nights, though...

Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a question of whether the play goes well or badly. It's not the audience reaction, it's my reaction. I'm rather hostile toward audiences?I don't much care for large bodies of people collected together. Everyone knows that audiences vary enormously; it's a mistake to care too much about them. The thing one should be concerned with is whether the performance has expressed what one set out to express in writing the play. It sometimes does.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

The more acute the experience...

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

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Nothing is more sterile or la...

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

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I mean, if a thing works, if ...

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Referees are the law. They ha...

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

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I would never use obscene lan...

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

No matter how you look at it,...

No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

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I sometimes wish desperately ...

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

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I think we communicate only t...

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

Harold Pinter 98 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....