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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

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I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

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I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

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I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

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I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

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It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: May 15th, 1926

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