My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
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- Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
- I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
- My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
- It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
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