I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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