Sally Vincent

Sally Vincent (22 April 1937 – 26 December 2013) was a British journalist, best known for her interviews of prominent people.

Quotes

• Mysteriously police link arms to form a barrier to prevent demonstrators (demonstra tors of what?) from mounting the pavement. 'Pigs' is now the word. 'Pigs, Pigs, Fascist Pigs', while civilian arms fink to confront the unified, uniformed police challenge. The lines are long and the confrontation spectacular, but suddenly comes a moment of bewildered embarrassment. 'Peace', says the civilians shyly, 'Peace, Peace, Peace.' A policeman blushes. Perhaps because he has lost his helmet.
  • "As I Saw It: Cat among the pigeons", (31 October 1970), p. 16
  • The previous Sunday in Trafalgar Square demonstrators protested against the selling arms to the apartheid regime in South Africa. On Monday (26 October), The Guardian reported: "The main Trafalgar Square rally passed without incident and without serious interruption". However, "[s]ixty-five people were arrested during ninety minutes of clashes between police and a breakaway group of demonstrators."

• [From a Derek Jacobi interview] At school, Leyton County High, he was a swot and went on to win a state scholarship to Cambridge. He told his dad that if he was still eating baked beans after five years of acting, he would be happy to become a history teacher, but by the time he was 21 he had joined Birmingham Rep, and was gainfully employed in an old NF Simpson extravaganza about a man who taught a weighing machine to sing the Alleluia Chorus.
  • "'I already knew I was a tetchy beast'", The Guardian (19 September 2006)
  • The reference is to One Way Pendulum, Simpson's best known play, which was first performed at London's Royal Court theatre in December 1959. The production at Birmingham Rep was staged in September and October 1960.