Alan Bennett Quotes
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe -
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Malcolm de Chazal -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Patrick Macnee -
When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
Cara Delevingne -
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin -
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz -
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill
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My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
Yael Naim -
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan -
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
Pat Buchanan -
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara -
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Macaulay Culkin
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman -
I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
Halsey -
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.
Chris Matthews -
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett