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Alan Bennett Quotes

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: May 9, 1934

Topics

Sea Land Never Shore Point Seen

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

People Roots World Think You Look

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

Tea Me Friends Feeling Go Afternoon

We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.

Facts Opinions Mantra Get Shares

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

Practice Wake Up Tough Enjoy You Go

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you've figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.

Think Thought Parent Someone You

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Queen People Mind Long Buy Been

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Music Stay Focused Me Focused Listen

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

God Respect Appreciation People Me

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

Mitch McConnell

Think Doing Enough Donald Trump Know

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Lucinda Williams

Singing Song Voice You Perfect Down

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Better You Try More Need Stage

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

Family People Me Basketball Saying

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