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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster. Hanif Kureishi

You Faster Analyst Months Out Stuck Least Get Getting Depressed Chance

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability. Hanif Kureishi

Family Me Father Job Big Sense Respectability Respectable Civil Civil Servant Having Support Deal Big Deal Being Mean Regular Servant

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds. Horton Foote

Change People Sense Minds Record Writer Trying Want Social

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself. Horton Foote

Love Good Prayer You Yourself Humanity People Complicated Try Good Person Sense Think Ways Neighbor Be Careful Find Superficial Restored About Seem Write Because Discovered Very Person Often Situations Where To Love Your Many Thing Careful

In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can. Horton Foote

Try See New Lot York New York Many Plays

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. Horton Foote

Mother Father Harriet Brooks Horton Named Great-Grandfather Always His Paternal Grandmother Twenty-Two Her Albert

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. Howard Barker

Political Value Plenty However Personal Political Views Social Them Prejudices Views

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal. Howard Barker

Good Through Puts Audience Ordeal Certain Play

I'm not interested in entertainment. Howard Barker

Entertainment Not Interested Interested

I don't like sympathetic characters. Howard Barker

Characters Like Sympathetic

I'm not interested in observed reality. Howard Barker

Reality Observed Not Interested Interested

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. Howard Barker

Value Believe Way Poetic Discourse Speculative Speech

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? Howard E. Koch

Time Casablanca New York December New York

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Howard E. Koch

You Sheep Hung Well Lamb Might

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. Howard E. Koch

Peace Nation Live Neighbors Rattling Wants Them Keep

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. Israel Horovitz

Only Mass Town Couple Were Up Families Grew Jewish

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. Israel Horovitz

Some Tourist Town Place Working-Class

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