Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I get bored easily.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
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When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
