To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTThere is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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