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 BENNETTOver the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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The 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.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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