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 do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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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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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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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 think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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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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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
