Ian Mckellen Quotes
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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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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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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As important as it is for the producers to pay more attention to the female roles, it's more important for us to take control over this situation and define who we are. Because if they just give us the parts, it's their point of view of who we are. What's important is that we define who we are and don't wait for the men to give us the roles.
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One thing alone my heart requires, - one gleam of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that into my cell of humiliation the flood of Divine pity should break, and keep aglow the openings of eternal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an everlasting love.
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I rob banks because that's where the money is.
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
