Ian Mckellen Quotes
I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
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Birth order is fascinating, and it is forever.
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I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.
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You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
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I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
