The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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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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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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