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.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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 write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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