That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTIf, 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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