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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. 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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If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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