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"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."

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"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."

"It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies."
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