244 Quotes About Alan

  • Author Graham Moore
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    I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

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  • Author Graham Moore
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    I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.

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  • Author Graham Moore
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    'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him.

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  • Author Graham Moore
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    Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

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  • Author Jerry Martin
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    A consultant, Alan Proulx, has helped us to identify conference rooms and other areas that can be used.

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  • Author John Messara
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    Rest assured Alan would have been watching this race on TV - he was confident for weeks Miss Finland would win.

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  • Author Mandy Moore
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    Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

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  • Author Martin Mayer
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    When Alan Greenspan was a consultant in private practice, he once said what he did for a living was 'statistical espionage'

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  • Author Michael Morpurgo
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    If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

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