It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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