I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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There’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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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