Ian Mckellen Quotes
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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The Congress for some time remained as a respectable residue. But a comprehensive party cannot survive too long as a residue. It may be small in size at a given time, but its composition should still remain comprehensive. This could be termed as the widest connotation of secularism. The Congress, therefore, is the most secular party in the real sense.
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
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I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
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The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
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If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
