Alan Bennett Quotes
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
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It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
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My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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My dream home would be a fishing lodge in New Zealand.
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
