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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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