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!
ALAN BENNETTOnly when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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