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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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