"I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways."
-Richard Eyre
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"I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.“
-Richard Eyre
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"Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives."
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"A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination."
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"I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."
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"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
-Carol Gilligan
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