I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
ALAN BENNETTHave you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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