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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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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 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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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