Ian Mckellen Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
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When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
