All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
Angela Wintle, This much I know, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
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The lecture that I’m proudest of [reprinted in the book as “In the Oxford Madrasa”] is the one that I gave in 2016 about conservatism being in a hopeless philosophical mess.
you have no idea where your power, if you have any power, comes from and then, when it vanishes, you have no idea why it’s vanished.
I’ve been reading – and fighting – Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts; feeling admiration and anger in equal parts.
I threw my lot in with the theatre and in terms of the pleasure it's given me, I've never regretted it, not even for a second.
People need justice.
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