Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTThere’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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