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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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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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!
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The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.
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You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
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In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
