One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTIn the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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 are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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