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"I don't believe in right-angled turning points."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing."
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"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."
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"It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right."
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"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
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"I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating."
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"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
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"You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."
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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."
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"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
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"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."
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"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."
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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
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"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
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"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."
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"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
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"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."
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"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."
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