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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

Alan Bennett

His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Apartment Door Someone Sound Spent Wall Write
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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Artist Background Blueprint Circumstance Everything Particular Possible Transcend Want Way
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Admit Die Fault Many Partly People So Still War
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Call Character English Lack Mean Power Refrain
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Book Bread Butter Finish Mash One Philosophy Plate Potato
We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Down Mean No Past Period Recent Remote See
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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According Article Daily Hard Left List Mall Playwright
The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Done Go Next Once Start Think
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Elsewhere Generally Happen Life Something
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Beautiful Figure Final Grasp Inessential Land Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing Waste
If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Assure Broadway Exactly Film Instance Made Same Show Understand
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Anyway Found More Take Talk Time Well Write

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

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