"You don't put your life into your books, you find it there."

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Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.40, Faber & Faber

Alan Bennett

“Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.”

Source : "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.”
“I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.”
“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”
“The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.”
“It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.”

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