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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

~Patrick Marber

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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

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I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.

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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

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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.

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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 19th, 1964

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