It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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