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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it. Israel Horovitz
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing. Israel Horovitz
Me Writing Drive Enjoy Enough Back Unless Something Poem Fact Troubling Never Written Absurdity In Fact Anything Story Film Play
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. Israel Horovitz
Other Way Write Know Because How Questions Any Any Other Way Ask
Radical politics tend to be simple minded. Israel Horovitz
Politics Simple Radical Minded Tend
I was not to the manor born. Israel Horovitz
Born
My dream is to have a small company in France. Israel Horovitz
France Dream Small Company
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute. Israel Horovitz
You People Cute Focused Kind TV TV And Film Arcane Something Like Look Sport Doing Theater Film
I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe. Israel Horovitz
Seen Globe Around Languages Productions Dozens
What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. Israel Horovitz
He New Center Theater Creates Plays
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue. Jack Thorne
Rights Book Try First Wave Something Directing Wrote Because Afford Wanted Play Adaptation
I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people. Jack Thorne
Myself People Find Small Small Talk Like Talk Around Exhausting
I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition. Jack Thorne
Me Big Ambition Write Feel Am Trying Represents Play
I think London is a bit sad, and I find it a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of quite unhappy people, and it's very goal-driven. Jack Thorne
Sad People Unhappy Overwhelming Think Bit Find London Lot Very Quite
I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts. Jack Thorne
Hope Good Mind Desperately Those Characters Write Parts Get Then Good Actors Really Actor Play
I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself. Jack Thorne
Myself People Big Other Back Kid Nerdy Having Having Fun Part Always Big Part Stood Fun Necessarily Watching
The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone's getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it's very hard being young. Jack Thorne
Bullying Me You Theatre People Sometimes Young Stage Think Slightly Laugh Laughing About Someone Having Scenes Brutally Know Audience Still Bullied Very Getting Quite Being Interesting Confuses Really Means Hard Thing
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it. Jack Thorne
Hope Family Class Army School Way Kids Members Find Born Seeking More Generally Cruise Vulnerable Always Were July Offend Them Tom Tom Cruise Fourth Enlisted
Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man. Jack Thorne
Man Long Down Nice Extraordinary Way Out Never He Long Way Like Pierce Behaves Quite Hanging Interesting Interesting Thing Really Star Thing Set
I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write. Jack Thorne
Love Day Write Where Want Really Working
It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me. Jack Thorne
Me People Other Like Just
I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation. Jack Thorne
Natural Whatever State Intimidated Intimidation Embrace Feel Well Going May Just Natural State
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation. Jack Thorne
Conversation Writing Stupid Idiot Controlling Way Constant Seem Winning Always Sound Smug Either Plays
I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire. Jack Thorne
Me You Thought Before Thinking Out Phrase Dire About Something Something New Could Idea New Wrote Occasionally Read Cure Get Maybe Staged Which Them Turn Use Even Plays
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. James Kirkwood
Thought Incredible Out Would Would-Be He Missing Curiosity Just Plain
Always be a little kinder than necessary. James M. Barrie
Kinder Always Than Little Necessary
To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie
Will Big Adventure Die
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