David Hare
David Hare
Sir David Hareis an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Most notable for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth5 June 1947
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Smiles are the language of love.
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
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'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
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that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.
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He's been both an example and an inspiration to us all.