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.
ALAN BENNETTHowever bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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