One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTArt comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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