My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTOf course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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