Alan Bennett Quotes
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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Ginger: I can't do this, Lois! I can't go out with a woman who has a child! I'm too young, I tell you! I haven't sown my oats yet!Lois: I think your oats are impacted.
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There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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It must be God first, God second, and God third.
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
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The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.
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It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
