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Alan Bennett Quotes

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mind Try Write Resolve Out Things

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Time Short You Phone Underwater Two

I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.

College Thinking American Cards Boy

I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.

Moment People Society Rules Over

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

Good Music Know Now Extinct Became

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Freedom I Am World Citizen Am Greek

I worked at Dollywood when I was a kid. Then I worked at Opryland. I worked at a variety of theater things in Atlanta. I was also in a choir for two years where we did 'Annie' and 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.'

Amazing Atlanta Choir Kid Two Years

The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.

Education Freedom Health Identity

Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.

Mountain College Me Drink Studying

For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

Man Talking Earth Pretty Just Maybe

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

People Win Think Someone Stronger

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

People Picture Thoughtful Know Kind

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Government Wish Alive Spirit I Wish

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