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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. Edward Bond
Experience Collective Goodness Past Became Always In The Past Then
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. Edward Bond
Animal Our More Unconscious Than Often Human Even Conscious
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. Edward Bond
Shakespeare Answers Us
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. Edward Bond
Extreme Said Tragedies Very Greeks Things
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. Edward Bond
Truth Stage Got Appear Plausible
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. Edward Bond
Democracy Hidden Structures Consumerism Merely Democratic Because Within Domestic Western Convenience Radically Violence
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. Edward Bond
Problem Try Stage Put Head-On Without Evasion Play
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama. Edward Bond
You Situation Drama Go Ultimate
You have to learn the language of Hamlet. Edward Bond
You Language Learn Hamlet
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek
Time Me Face Society Panorama Would Would-Be Masks New Employing Linguistic Same Same Time Formal Literature While Modes Whole Exposing Tearing Award Expression Deserving Keeps Draft
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek
Music Me Training Words Speak Language Will Example Musical Kind Composition True For Example True Meaning Sound Led Process Which Against Meaning Then Expose Play
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek
Government Made Once Acceptable Again Right Socially
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. Elfriede Jelinek
Language Made Long Similar Prose Up Which Working Plays Monologues
I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input. Elfriede Jelinek
People Wonderful Internet Everyone Input Find Most Wonderful Thing Connects Thing
It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet. Elfriede Jelinek
Internet Democratic Method Text Wonderfully Publishing
As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much. Elfriede Jelinek
Long Books Miss Much
I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise. Elfriede Jelinek
Time Paradise Year Nothing Write Take Want Really
I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence. Elfriede Jelinek
War Ways Charged Unrest Football Football Match Sport Became Match Metaphor Ended Nationalist After Former Then Yugoslavia Started Violence Associate
As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad. Elfriede Jelinek
War Good Peace Cause Kind Bad Civilisation Counter Football Catalyst Also Well Much
The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox. Elfriede Jelinek
People Hide Big Group Too Easier Enter Hiding Out Cities More More People Vast Argue Smaller Like Big Cities Intellectuals Chickens Bunch Discussions Large Fox Universities
In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers. Elfriede Jelinek
Great Political Country Rather Fell Catholic Because Were Austria Authoritarian Role Artists Social Thinkers
How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines. Elfriede Jelinek
Reality Sidelines Onto Writer Know Him How Forever Gets Which Away
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters. Elizabeth Meriwether
Love You Think Characters TV Possibly TV Show Could Write Know How Where To Love Show
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters. Elizabeth Meriwether
Honesty Characters See Something Tendency Come Female Female Characters Male Than Representative Just Larger Things Funniest
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of. Elizabeth Meriwether
Funny Today Woman Women Worth Different Kinds Way Right Way Kinds Pretty Wrong Wrong Way Female Does Making Doing Friendships Being Different Mean Fun Right
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds. Elizabeth Meriwether
Me Writing Relationships Characters Exactly Know Always Builds How Dysfunctional Little Sketches Then Appeal Start Started
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