I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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