If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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