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I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Becomes Being Defines Feel Gay Hidden Hide Keep Like Me Same Same Time Saying Secret Then Time You

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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

~Alan Bean

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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

Topics: Able Action Address Ado Adventurous Always Any Audience Back Being Boy Break Doing Find Go History Instance Like Make More Out Prose Reader Sit Stage Suddenly Talk Than Then Turn Up Will Without

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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

Topics: Being Even Found Go Impersonal Me Most Myself New New York Nowhere Off Particularly Reason Shirt Shorts Sometimes Sort Start Summers Take Tried Unable Write Writing York

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: Been Being Books British Brought Canada Developed Early England English Family Filled Grandmother Great Great Love Grew Had House Love Magazines Newspapers Piles Reader Really Surrounded Up Very Who

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The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

~Alan Brien

Topics: Back Been Being Collecting Congenial Debt Drafted Emergency End Get Give Impression Job Law Majority Martial Men Occupation Only Period Really Slum Them Waiting Who

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Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.

~Alan Colmes

Topics: About Attitudes Being Credit Den Even Everything Fox Get Liberal Lion Most Say True Were Would

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Talk radio can't work unless you have the kind of independence you get by being part of an independent news network. You can't be beholden to an agenda, and that's what I like about Fox: It doesn't have one.

~Alan Colmes

Topics: About Agenda Beholden Being Fox Get Independence Independent Kind Like Network News Part Radio Talk Talk Radio Unless Work You

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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

~Alan Cranston

Topics: Activities Adventures Appealed Being Correspondent Covering Days Events Foreign Glamorous Great Greatly Having Idea Leaders Life Me Those Very Wandering Witnessing World

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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

~Alan Cumming

Topics: Alan Being Days Feel Like Some You

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