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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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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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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Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?
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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
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I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
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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.
