Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
