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"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
Life
"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War
"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
Rules
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
Court
"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
Contempt
"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."
Work
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
Cancer
"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
Intelligence
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
Country
"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
Love
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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Personal Development
"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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Personal Development
"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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Personal Development
"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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Personal Development
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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Personal Development
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."
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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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