The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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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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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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