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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.

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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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