Alan Bates Quotes

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

Alan Bates

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Focus
  • Poet
  • Uncomfortable

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Age
  • Parents

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Universe

• Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Way
  • Like

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Live
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Family
  • Well
  • Culinary

• I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Path
  • Model

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Girl
  • Sea
  • River

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Experience
  • Black

• What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • World
  • Believe
  • Home

• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Creative

• Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Sex
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Black
  • Fit
  • Classic

• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • School
  • Kids
  • Black

• If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Hope

• I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

  

  Alan Bates