If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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