Ian Mckellen Quotes
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
