Caryl Churchill Quotes

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The more you don't do it, the more it's fun to read about.

Caryl Churchill
One thing one learned from one's colonial masters.
One makes money from other people's disasters.

Caryl Churchill
Zac:
The IMF is not a charity.
It has to insist on absolute austerity.
Nigel:
Absolutely. It can't be namby pamby.
These countries must accept restricted diets.
The governments must explain, if there are food riots,
That paying the western banks is the priority.

Caryl Churchill
How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Caryl Churchill
There's ugly greedy and sexy greedy, you dope.
At the moment you're ugly which is no hope
If you stay ugly, god knows what your fate is.
But sexy greedy is the late eighties.

Caryl Churchill
We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

Caryl Churchill
NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

Caryl Churchill
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

Caryl Churchill
People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Caryl Churchill