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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 10th, 1930

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