49 Quotes by Richard Eyre

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    What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

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    Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

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    The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.

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    'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

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    I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

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    I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

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    I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

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    Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.

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    Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.

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