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1667 Playwright Quotes

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
First First Job Honest Job
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Kind Mysticism Writing There
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Everything Me Professionalism Worries
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Almost Culture Dead Happening
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Always Around Different Different Places
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Come Exotic Mad Place
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Became Becoming Created Phenomenon
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Behind Charge Everything Know
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
Get Just Stories Tell
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Aside Feminism Give Out
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Big Box Dive Each
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Controlled English Funk Got
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Although Believing Cheat Con
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

Always Change Changing Consumer
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Absence After Argument Lot
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

Become Divorced Lifestyle Many
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Facebook Get Home I Think
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

Am Even I Am Immersed
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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Content Every I Think Offers
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Bit Cinema Continuum End
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
A Good Thing America Been Good
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Our society pray for the rich who contracted the virus and prey on the poor who contracted the virus.

Society Pray Virus Rich
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We give flowers,emojis and cards to Children of elites who imported the Virus and we give whips and slaps to the Almajiri who caught the virus.

Almajiri Elites Children Virus
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If a Journalist doesn’t know how to “Kill Stories” , “destroy or finish an opposition”, fabricate or exaggerate the achievements of leaders in Government, he or she becomes an enemy of the media aide.

Journalist Kill Stories Fabricate Government
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On matters of health and Science, once the political leadership bends towards the pressures of mythical clerics, their superstitions and conspiracy theories, the ordinary man pays the price.

Health Science Political Pressure
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count

Been Born Experiencing Go
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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Comedy Degrees Fact Generally
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Emotional Promiscuity Sentiment Sentimentality
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Cruel Else Grow Just
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