If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTThere’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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