Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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