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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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