Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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