- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
- Cancer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
- Embarrassment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are about embarrassment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in private education.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020