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1. "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
2. "I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself." ~ Richard Eyre
3. "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
4. "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
5. "'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at." ~ Richard Eyre
6. "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
7. "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." ~ Richard Eyre
8. "Balance is the enemy of art." ~ Richard Eyre
9. "Don't ever be afraid to ask any question." ~ Richard Eyre
10. "Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good." ~ Richard Eyre
11. "Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love." ~ Richard Eyre
12. "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
13. "I resent all organised religions." ~ Richard Eyre
14. "I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb." ~ Richard Eyre
15. "I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it." ~ Richard Eyre
16. "I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them." ~ Richard Eyre
17. "If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic." ~ Richard Eyre
18. "The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness." ~ Richard Eyre
19. "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
20. "Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it." ~ Richard Eyre

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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names."
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