Ian Mckellen Quotes
I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.Ian Mckellen
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Warren Zevon -
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
Paloma Faith -
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
Edgar Winter -
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X -
I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison -
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
Eddie Marsan -
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco -
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia -
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
Macaulay Culkin -
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
Val Kilmer -
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
Barry Jenkins -
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
Imelda Staunton -
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
Malcolm Boyd -
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
Stephen Levine -
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
George Osborne -
"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
LeRoy Neiman -
I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.
Ian Mckellen