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"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."
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"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
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"I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."
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"I don't believe in right-angled turning points."
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"There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way."
Life
"Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres."
Life
"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
Audience
"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
Class
"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."
Car
"There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else."
War
"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could."
People
"When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much."
People
"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."
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