Ian Mckellen Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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I don't know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me and I love them, him, and them family. It's forgiving. Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it's a powerful, powerful emotion and it's my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and read it and remember it.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I love working in New York.
