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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Hardest Human One Learn Teacher Thing
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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Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Book Find Into Life Put
I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Control Expression Freedom Give Strict
My films are about embarrassment.
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Embarrassment Film
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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Certain Civilize Education Grant Privilege Seem Society Taken
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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Happen History Mood Something Subjunctive Use
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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Another Book Door Find Kept Open Process Turn
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETT

Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance
The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETT

Anybody Chosen Else Night Obscure Somebody Soon Thought Trouble
Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETT

Book Bought Finish Once Start Way
That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Across Ask Bid Crawl Malvern Perier Prefer Sahara Water
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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Crise Majority People Perform Spotlight Them
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World

In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

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