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.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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