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I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
- Richard Eyre
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I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
- Richard Eyre
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Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
- Richard Eyre
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#Child
#Long
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Balance is the enemy of art.
- Richard Eyre
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#Enemy
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.
- Richard Eyre
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#Never
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#Society
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
- Richard Eyre
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#Experience
#Live
#Music
#People
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
- Richard Eyre
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#Humanity
#Memory
#Own
#Thoughts
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
- Richard Eyre
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#Feelings
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.
- Richard Eyre
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#Oyster
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There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
- Richard Eyre
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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.
- Richard Eyre
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#Pain
#Personality
#Soul
I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
- Richard Eyre
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#Eye
#Story
#Understand
#View
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
- Richard Eyre
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#Good
#Heart
#Work
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.
- Richard Eyre
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#Eyes
#Understanding
#Us
Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
- Richard Eyre
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#Every
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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
- Richard Eyre
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#Baby
#Moment
#People
#Poetry
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