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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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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
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Been Easie Follow Much Something Successful
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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Already Book Confirm Decide Generally Just Perhaps Unwittingly
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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