A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older... |
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. |
He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically |
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. |
It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics. |
My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. |
she writes family scenes better than anyone else I can think of. |
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing. |
We find a way (in each country) to contain our differences of opinion without annihilating one another. |