"If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way."

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Alan Bennett

#Sight Quotes #Virginia Quotes #Rose Quotes

“If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.”
“I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.”
“Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule.”
“If I could take my entire savings in place of something, Iâ€™d chose time.”
“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source : Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press
“Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.”
“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

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