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 BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I 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.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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