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title: "3 Alan Bleasdale Quotes - Famous Screenwriter (Boys from the blackstuff)"
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# Alan Bleasdale

(1946)   Screenwriter

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Alan Bleasdale is a screenwriter, best known for *Boys from the blackstuff*.

## Quick Facts About Alan Bleasdale

Born March 23, 1946

Profession Screenwriter

Notable works Boys from the blackstuff

## About Alan Bleasdale

Alan George Bleasdale is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. Bleasdale's plays typically represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life in Liverpool than was usually seen in the media.

##  Quotes by Alan Bleasdale

> [There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bleasdale/there-is-not-in-nature-a-thing-that-makes-man-so-deformed-so-beastly/)

[Alan Bleasdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bleasdale/)

[Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdf/alan-bleasdale-82360_anger_there-is-not-in-nature-a-thing-that-make_912684.png)

> [I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bleasdale/i-ve-got-a-group-who-can-t-play-music-one-bad-comedian-plus-boyfriend/)

[Alan Bleasdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bleasdale/)

[Breakdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breakdown/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa4/alan-bleasdale-82360_breakdown_i-ve-got-a-group-who-can-t-play-music-on_1465553.jpg)

> [It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bleasdale/it-s-easy-to-be-generous-with-money-far-harder-to-be-generous-with/)

[Alan Bleasdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bleasdale/)

[Easy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/easy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a85/alan-bleasdale-82360_easy_it-s-easy-to-be-generous-with-money-far_3088654.png)

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