Alan Bennett Quotes
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
Vanessa Lachey -
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
Zac Brown Band -
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
Maajid Nawaz
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
Kangana Ranaut -
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
Ralph Bakshi -
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
Fiona Apple -
I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
Olly Murs -
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson -
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
Ramakrishna -
The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
Langston Hughes -
We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco -
κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖνἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Aeschylus -
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
Donald Trump -
Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
Eileen Myles
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I want to do good work in the world.
Sara Bareilles -
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
Marlee Matlin -
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
Om Puri -
I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.
Mark Spitz -
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov -
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett