Ian Mckellen Quotes
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
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More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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The choice is ours, in every moment.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
