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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.’

Alan Bennett

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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Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Crise Majority People Perform Spotlight Them
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
ALAN BENNETT

Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Debrief Know Memories Memory Ous Publicly
Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Explain Future Gone Imagine Incident Increase Larger Mention Number
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Either Experience Forgotten Like Nobody People School
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Book Find Into Life Put

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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