Richard Eyre Quotes
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I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
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We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
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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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I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
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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 am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
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Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
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