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.
ALAN BENNETTI 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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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