From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project.


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ALAN BENNETT
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT
If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING
I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING
I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING
I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING
I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY
I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY
If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS
I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS
Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS