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That's a great benefit. After we chose the cast, we educated them into the play. We taught them. One of the blessings of being at the National Theatre is that you have a very long rehearsal time.

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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.

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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now

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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

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Papers like the Mail make out that people are prurient and outraged I don't think people really care.

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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

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My films are about embarrassment.

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We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

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He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Courage is no good It means not scaring others', you want to say that just isn't true. There is more to courage than that.

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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

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Hey, this is exciting. At least we'll always remember this anniversary.

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

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Definition of a classic a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

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This symposium will highlight the surprisingly diverse and positive role that cocoa can potentially play in improving public health and reinvigorating endangered tropical ecosystems. It also underscores the impact that collaborative efforts among public and private sector scientists can have in a relatively short time.

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If you told it the other way round in a film, it would seem like a tract, ... The message would be too much in the foreground. It's human stories, those are the ones you're interested in. So the argument, as it were, is submerged and that's the way it should be, really. You've got to get the audience interested in the lives of the boys.

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Why is it always the 'intelligent' people who are socialists

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Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.

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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

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