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 BENNETTThe Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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