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The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
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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. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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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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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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