28 ordspråk av Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
 Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. |
| Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. |
| Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. |
| He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Courage is no good / It means not scaring others', you want to say that just isn't true. There is more to courage than that. |
| He's so eccentric -- physically, and he's so funny. |
| Hey, this is exciting. At least we'll always remember this anniversary. |
| I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not. |
| I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. |
| I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. |
| I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. |
| If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. |
| If you told it the other way round in a film, it would seem like a tract, ... The message would be too much in the foreground. It's human stories, those are the ones you're interested in. So the argument, as it were, is submerged and that's the way it should be, really. You've got to get the audience interested in the lives of the boys. |
| Last year we were more of a running team. This year we're more versatile. |
| Life is generally something that happens elsewhere. |
| Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key |
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Toplists (6 st)
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