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.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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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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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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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