Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETT[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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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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