They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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