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Alan Bates Quotes

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: February 17, 1934 - December 27, 2003

Topics

Time People Impossible Believe Out

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

Great Fight Easy You Way Never

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

Father Thought Married

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

Freedom Joy Song Guitar You Artist

I could never have ridden 4,000 winners without loving my job, and If I ever get to the point where I'm not loving it, I'll stop.

Job Loving Stop Never Winners Point

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

Work Hard Work End Retirement Wrong

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Fear Power Money Corruption Open

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Freedom History Sacrifice Achieve Us

I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and sometimes they'll all be dramas, or they'll all be comedies, or there will be two dramas and a comedy, and then I'll go for whatever. If I have to audition, I'll audition. If it's an offer, great.

Great Comedy Go Sometimes Three Two

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Joseph de Maistre

Man Free Wicked General Himself Too

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

Love Good Value Revenge Bad Kind

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Constantin Stanislavski

Theatre Better Person Better You

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

William M. Daley

People You Pen Talk More Difficult

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