Alan Bennett Quotes
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
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But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
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Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
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In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'
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I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.
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We are talking about a special player, the one who would mean a lot to us. Anyhow, I wish him a lot of luck in his career.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
