Alan Bennett Quotes
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.
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I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
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As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
