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 BENNETTIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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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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Our 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.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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