Alan Bennett
Related I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. An... GUY CLARK Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, i... CHANTAL AKERMAN , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON ERIN MORGENSTERN everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, mo... GEORGE CARLIN VIR DAS But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify t... JENNY DISKI I didn't have a particularly good year for Jack. I held out that spring and missed most of spring tr... LOU PINIELLA F. SIONIL JOSE So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to... LINDA LAVIN I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish. YANDEL MICHAEL MORPURGO I guess that’s the aspect of being an adult that’s most terrifying: you either never change, or ... ANTHONY MAGESTRO LOIS LOWRY I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on t... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR DEYTH BANGER ANNA KENDRICK Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the r... GLORIA ANZALDUA I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. ... MAHESH BABU I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I&#... ELIZA COUPE The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with m... ETGAR KERET CRAIG GROESCHEL Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c... TATIANA DE ROSNAY I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit ... JAMES ROLLINS Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ... VINCE NEIL It offends me, ... I've been in this league nine years. I come to the game sometimes in jeans and a ... TRACY MCGRADY V. S. NAIPAUL CECELIA AHERN I just felt that like an actor it's really hard to get a really good role. I mean a part like this, ... ZACH BRAFF I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ... TOM ODELL If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step i... ATUL GAWANDE NARENDRA MODI Yeah, I do. To me, the audience can be one person. I'm so critical of myself that it's really hard f... YNGWIE MALMSTEEN CRAIG GROESCHEL Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t... ISAIAH MUSTAFA CRAIG GROESCHEL CHELSEA HANDLER HOWARD HUGHES JIM BUTCHER CHARLES BUKOWSKI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself... JUDY COLLINS I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav... DANIEL HUMM Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want t... MIRANDA COSGROVE GAIL CARSON LEVINE CHRISTINA ENGELA I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the... MIKE HUCKABEE I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my pa... ALEX KARPOVSKY I'm not a cooking person, so there's not much in the fridge. On the rare occasion that I do ... EUGENIE BOUCHARD You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom... PENELOPE LIVELY All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't w... DAVEED DIGGS If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that ... CHARLIE DANIELS ROBERT GOTTLIEB DEAN KOONTZ I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work... JANE CAMPION People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... MONICA JOHNSON GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like wh... RIC OCASEK KURT VONNEGUT MICHIO KAKU ARCHIE PANJABI I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I ca... VING RHAMES MAYA ANGELOU I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of... JILL SOBULE I like to play saxophone because you don't inhale. , ON A RADIO TALK SHOW IN NEW YORK I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to g... PHILIP K. DICK CATHERINE LACEY LUKE EVANS CHARLES DICKENS But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mea... BRUCE NAUMAN I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so ... DOUG WRIGHT JOHN MAYER MAYA ANGELOU CRAIG GROESCHEL I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that... TAYLOR SCHILLING Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n... W. P. KINSELLA When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE I don't stop to think about [there being a new opportunity]. I know I have a chance to make the team... ANGEL GUZMAN So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there's an audien... JACK BRUCE I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw... FRANKIE MUNIZ ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brot... ANNA NEAGLE CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ... NATE DIAZ All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able t... PENELOPE LIVELY I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to b... DAVID SELTZER CLAIRE DANES I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt w... MATT LAUER MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA NED VIZZINI REV. AL SHARPTON Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. W... WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS MARY BARRA KATE MOSS
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BO BENNETT When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. BO BENNETT Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. BO BENNETT An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. BO BENNETT Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. BO BENNETT Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. BO BENNETT Success is not in what you have, but who you are. BO BENNETT A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. BO BENNETT Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master... BO BENNETT Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. BO BENNETT Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself. BO BENNETT A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. 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I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
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When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... 
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do... 
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. 
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We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. 
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