My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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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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