So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTA bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTI’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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTYou 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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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.
ALAN BENNETTIf 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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