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" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

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" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

" It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. "

" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "

" I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. "

" I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it. "

" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "

" I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. "

" I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. "

" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "

" I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. "

" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "

" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

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" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "

" I can't remember what my first script was. "

" The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. "

" I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. "

" My brain cells are dying in their trillions. "

" When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about. "

" I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. "

" What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? "

" I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. "

" The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. "

" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "

" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "