Alan Bennett Quotes

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.

Alan Bennett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

EducationLoveGreatArchitectureGo

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Joe Johnston

CharacterUnexpectedBlack-And-White

It's nice to see a friendly face or have someone know your name.

Jillionaire

FaceNameSomeoneKnowNiceSee

I can't stand cocky, rude people.

Joanna Krupa

PeopleStandCockyRude

My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.

Jeff Van Gundy

LoveFatherMotherSupportMeGame

Empowerment isn't a buzzword among leadership gurus. It's a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.

John Rampton

LeadershipTrainingSucceedTools

My style is too versatile to be compared to anybody.

Smokepurpp

StyleAnybodyVersatileTooCompared

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Tom Stoppard

WorkFreedomDictatorshipWantJail

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

Robin DiAngelo

FreeBelieveBiasPossible

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

Ruth Negga

BlackConversationInequalityRace

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

Michael Lewis

WorkThinkBetterSomeoneFindWhy

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

Mo Ibrahim

TodayWarVoiceDrivingYouRules

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Dirk Benedict

GodChildrenResponsibilityParents

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alan Bennett