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Life is rather like a tin of ...

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

An article on playwrights in ...

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I've never seen the point of ...

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

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I can't complain that I've ha...

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Definition of a classic: a bo...

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Sometimes, particularly in su...

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I don't want to see libraries...

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Were we closer to the ground ...

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Closing a public library is c...

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I'd somehow always thought of...

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I'm more socialist certainly ...

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I've been very lucky in every...

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I always like to break out an...

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

If you think squash is a comp...

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

[B]riefing is not reading. In...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Children always assume the se...

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I always feel over-appreciate...

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Those who have known the famo...

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

I do not long for the world a...

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

We were all miners in our fam...

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

Alan Bennett 124 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....