Alan Bennett Quote

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
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I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
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I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
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Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it p...
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key
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This symposium will highlight the surprisingly diverse and positive role that cocoa can potentially ...
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of lo...
ALAN BENNETT

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In...
ALAN BENNETT

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, wi...
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The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we...
ALAN BENNETT

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quit...
ALAN BENNETT

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETT

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunda...
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Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on ...
ALAN BENNETT

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...
ALAN BENNETT

I don't always understand poetry!'

'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never unders...
ALAN BENNETT

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? Histor...
ALAN BENNETT

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another
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He's so eccentric -- physically, and he's so funny.
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
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We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our...
ALAN BENNETT

Last year we were more of a running team. This year we're more versatile.
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Papers like the Mail make out that people are prurient and outraged; I don't think people really car...
ALAN BENNETT

He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Coura...
ALAN BENNETT

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...
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Hey, this is exciting. At least we'll always remember this anniversary.
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. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up o...
ALAN BENNETT

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a l...
ALAN BENNETT

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to ...
ALAN BENNETT

I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have reta...
ALAN BENNETT

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned an...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not hav...
ALAN BENNETT

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
ALAN BENNETT

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
ALAN BENNETT

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERF

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
BO BENNETT

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
BO BENNETT

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
BO BENNETT

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
BO BENNETT

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
BO BENNETT

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
BO BENNETT

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master...
BO BENNETT

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
BO BENNETT

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
BO BENNETT

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
BO BENNETT

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
MANU BENNETT

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
MANU BENNETT

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
MANU BENNETT

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
MANU BENNETT

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
MANU BENNETT

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba...
MANU BENNETT

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it a...
MANU BENNETT

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are star...
MANU BENNETT

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch...
MANU BENNETT

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equat...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israe...
NAFTALI BENNETT

Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young peopl...
NAFTALI BENNETT

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own...
NAFTALI BENNETT

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, thro...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates th...
NAFTALI BENNETT

There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
NAFTALI BENNETT

You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlemen...
NAFTALI BENNETT

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its bor...
NAFTALI BENNETT

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
NAFTALI BENNETT

I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerla...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hop...
NAFTALI BENNETT

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as...
NAFTALI BENNETT

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
NAFTALI BENNETT

Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, ...
BO BENNETT

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen...
BO BENNETT

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employe...
BO BENNETT

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing...
BO BENNETT

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
BO BENNETT

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
BO BENNETT

Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERF

I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not som...
HALEY BENNETT

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
HALEY BENNETT

I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
HALEY BENNETT

I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the ...
HALEY BENNETT

I want to have a long career.
HALEY BENNETT

I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
HALEY BENNETT

I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. ...
HALEY BENNETT

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent st...
HALEY BENNETT

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT

I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li...
HALEY BENNETT

When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrenc...
HALEY BENNETT

I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
HALEY BENNETT

I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
HALEY BENNETT

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
HALEY BENNETT

I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way t...
HALEY BENNETT

Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and ...
HALEY BENNETT

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
HALEY BENNETT

I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
HALEY BENNETT

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
HALEY BENNETT

I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
HALEY BENNETT

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and mora...
WILLIAM BENNETT

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT

I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT

Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#...
BECK BENNETT

I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
BECK BENNETT

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who ha...
BECK BENNETT

Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The reason that the Ten Commandments...
DAN BENNETT

The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today in terms of living history...
ALEXANDER BENNETT

Our mission is to restore the site to that condition, in 1746. That clearly means some fairly major ...
ALEXANDER BENNETT

All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written ab...
ALEXANDER BENNETT

The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢�...
ALEXANDER BENNETT

When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT

Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT

To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
ROY BENNETT

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
ROY BENNETT

Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
ROY BENNETT

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY BENNETT

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes an...
ROY BENNETT

We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses...
ROY BENNETT

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your c...
ROY BENNETT

Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT

There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, ne...
ROY BENNETT

The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
ROY BENNETT

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happie...
ROY BENNETT

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous...
BO BENNETT

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results i...
BO BENNETT

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua...
BO BENNETT

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT

Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

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