Ian Mckellen Quotes
Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
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In terms of its endorphin-boosting potential, a good hair day is on par with a good workout.
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They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.
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I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
