Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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