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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
