Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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