To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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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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