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.
ALAN BENNETTOne 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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