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 BENNETTSome local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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