Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
ALAN BENNETTI think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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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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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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