I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTAnd now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is 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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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