So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
ALAN AYCKBOURN
So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
More Alan Ayckbourn Quotes
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So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
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If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle.
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You don’t have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don’t like them very much.
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A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
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What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I’m more interested in, there’s the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.
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Salad, I can’t bear salad. It grows while you’re eating it, you know.
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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?.
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A gentleman … sleeps at his work. That’s what work’s for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library?
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He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
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Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
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What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
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Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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