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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.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Assure Broadway Exactly Film Instance Made Same Show Understand
The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Busk Exam Expect Ide Master Really Scholarship
[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Context Explain Holocaust Say Something Step Talking Toward Understand
My films are about embarrassment.
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Embarrassment Film
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Certain Civilize Education Grant Privilege Seem Society Taken
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Acknowledge Care Cattle Count Foo
f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Alec Been Born Business Instance Work
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
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
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
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.
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Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
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

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