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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to have a more social life than I have.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.
- Diary
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.
- Dench
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020