I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTA book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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