My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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