Harold Pinter Quotes

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Harold Pinter

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : October 10, 1930

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.

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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

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The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

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A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

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