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.
ALAN BENNETTArt comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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