Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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