I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

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