My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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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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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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