Ian Mckellen Quotes
Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
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Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
