Alan Sillitoe Quotes

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

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• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
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• Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
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• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
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• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
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• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

  

  Halle Berry
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• I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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• Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

  

  Takashi Murakami
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• If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

  

  Sam Smith
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• It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.

  

  Marc Faber
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• I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

  

  Adam Richman
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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  

  David Amram
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• Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

  

  L. Neil Smith

• Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

  

  Harvey Mackay
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• Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
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