Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

09-May-1934

Andorra

Actor

Writer and actor Alan Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1934. He attended Leeds Modern School and studied Russian at Join Services School for Linguists during National Service, where he studied at Cambridge University. He applied to study at Oxford University where he did his undergraduate degree in history After a brief period of teaching and learning at Oxford, in 1960 Bennett, along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook, quickly gained fame by appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in which the excessive fringe review. His first play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many TV, stage and radio games are followed, as well as screens, short stories, novels, a large non-fiction and broadcast team, and many appearances as an actor.

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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

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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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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

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How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

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Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

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