The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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My films are about embarrassment.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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