I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTThey 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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