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In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
— Timothy West
Tags: up, get, back, hands

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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
— Timothy West
Tags: turning, points, believe
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.
— Timothy West
Tags: kitchen, writing, people, you
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
— Timothy West
Tags: just, kitchen, difficult, you
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
— Timothy West
Tags: them, pretty, how, live
Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
— Timothy West
Tags: end, royal, stop, police
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