Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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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 are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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