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I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.

~Jack Thorne

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I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

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It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.

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I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.

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I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

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I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.

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I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.

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Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: December 6th, 1978

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