"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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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Alan Bennett

#Play Quotes #Scripts Quotes #Film Quotes

“I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.”

Source : "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.
“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.”

Source : George Bancroft (1841). “History of the Colonization of the United States”, p.49
“All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.”
“To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?”
“The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395
“And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.”
“In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.”

Source : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.
“In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.”

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