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.
ALAN BENNETTBut then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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