That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTAll the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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