The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTThe thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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