At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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