The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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