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Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us. Christopher Bond
War Enemies Important Before Our Run Abroad Troops Support Support Our Troops Most Policy Terror Foreign Foreign Policy Continue Hit Hitting Them Us Keeping
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators. Christopher Bond
Time Simple Will Free Long Numerous Our Way Spent Our Time Paperwork More Students Long Way Go Educators Reforms Bill Means Less Special Less Time Lessons Preparing
Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be. Christopher Bond
Will Dinner Beef Continue Yes Last Night Last Night Tonight
Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. Christopher Durang
Sad Funny Me You Balance Care Parents Characters Some About More Emotionally Feel Since Like Comic Surreal Close Than Them Then Should Based Play Plays
Laughter can bring a new perspective. Christopher Durang
Perspective Laughter New New Perspective Bring
My parents didn't really know one another. Christopher Durang
Parents Know Another Really
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. Christopher Durang
Mother Father Thought Think Pleasant Side Respectable Architect Charming He Knew Attentive Know Another Got Which Profession Deeply Actually
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job. Christopher Durang
Sometimes Job Over Since Also Get Commit Pitch Act Acting Resentment
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. Christopher Durang
Atheist Only Never Graduated Being Agnostic
The dark is light enough. Christopher Fry
Dark Light Enough
Coffee in England is just toasted milk. Christopher Fry
Coffee Just Toasted England Milk
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. Christopher Fry
Life Time First Corner Run Had Look First Time Just Want Commonplace Turned Plays
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural. Christopher Fry
Woman Made Supernatural Honest
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. Christopher Hampton
Truth Lie People Live Believe Those Divide Know Always Falsely Who Groups Two
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Christopher Hampton
You Husband Think Humiliating Degrading About Something Having Rival Fail Commonplace Succeed
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. Christopher Hampton
Life Great Human Being World Result Energy Our Direct Allied Troubled Disappointments His Human Arts Being Anything Literature Inadequate Fantasies Manufacture Who Belief Fundamentally Number
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton
Happiness Woman Marriage Strict Prestigious Possibly Religious Seduce Morals More Could Fervor Famous Her
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. Christopher Hampton
Good You Book Potential Take Got Get Then Really Good Book Film Good Film Right
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. Christopher Hampton
Work Live Films Wanted Moment Early
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. Christopher Hampton
Work Great People Living Out Study Real Get Breathing
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. Christopher Hampton
Myself Day Nothing Find Give Read Off Just Shut
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. Christopher Hampton
Good Day Better Looking Sit Nice Think Films Say Good Movies Potential Excuse Make Read Very Often Just Which Movies Whole Novels
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine. Christopher Hampton
First Saw Mine Say Court Ashamed Play Royal
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. Clifford Odets
Life Alone Time Soul Happy First Happy Life Down Monroe One-Night Some Rise Weeks Supper First Time Always Quiet Did Short Which Sat Her Night Marilyn
Sex - the poor man's polo. Clifford Odets
Man Sex Polo Poor
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work. Conor McPherson
Work Faith Words Language Put Just Want Actor
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