Ian Mckellen Quotes
I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
Ian Mckellen
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
Yasmine Al Masri
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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.
Vin Diesel
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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.
Imogen Heap
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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.
Hanna Rosin
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri
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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.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Calamity Jane
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel
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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.
Jack Nicklaus
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Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.
Mackenzie Davis
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It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
James Norton
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I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.
Kurt Vile
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Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emil Cioran
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The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see.
Linus Roache
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
Ian Mckellen
