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I don't sleep well these days. I'm not complaining; I'm just stating it as a fact.

I took extra pain killers last night. They didn't send me to sleep. They just made my head buzzier.

I lie awake and plot my novel.

The man next door works unsocial hours and has a terrible cough. Huh-hurr, huh-hurr, huh-hurr.

Those people with the yard dogs- how can they stand that incessant racket up close? They must be old and deaf.

The less I sleep the more intensely I dream. Last night Laurence Olivier was directing me in Macbeth. He was explaining his own greatness to me. "Maybe it's not where I come from," he said. "It's from whence I came."

Date: 2006-02-17 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com
"The less I sleep the more intensely I dream. Last night Laurence Olivier was directing me in Macbeth. He was explaining his own greatness to me. 'Maybe it's not where I come from," he said. "It's from whence I came.'"

That would explain his greatness, then: being able to say that with a straight face.

After I read his autobiography, I had more respect for Vivien Leigh and less for him.

Date: 2006-02-17 05:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
I understand Olivier's importance, but I think he's over-rated. He may have been the finest stage actor of his generation but he never mastered the art of screen acting.

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