Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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