Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different...

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different...

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never...

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never...

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the...

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the...

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I...

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I...

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared...

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared...

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going...

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going...

You can't always let people do their own thing.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine...

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine...

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany,...

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany,...

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a...

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a...

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you...

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you...

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization,...

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization,...

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great...

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great...