I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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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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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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