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.
ALAN BENNETTDeluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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