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.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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 think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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