I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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