I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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 generally something that happens elsewhere.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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