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There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#become #dedication #fade #fleeting #focus

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#couple #dramatic #elegant #emotion #every

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint. ↗

— David Maraniss

#being #human #human being #philosophy #saint

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#cast #character #characters #component #directed

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#either #film #films #hollywood #hollywood films

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#cross #desperate #feels #film #hollywood

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#coming #film #get #happens #i

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#defend #fabulous #go #good #hilt

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#ever #globe #golden #golden globe #i

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#bit #characters #component #doing #feel