It is not a biopic it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin loathe it for its rejection of him.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Don't do housework after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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