What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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But 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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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