Alan Bates Quotes

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

Alan Bates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

Maxine Peake

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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

Michael Gambon

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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

Meryl Streep

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Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Simon Mainwaring

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We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

Toussaint Louverture

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Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

Tom Golisano

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People in Hollywood will say things one minute and change it the next.

Ron Stallworth

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I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

Dixie Lee Ray

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But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

Christopher Meloni

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