I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
ALAN BENNETTAuthors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTThe nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTIt’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’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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