Ian Mckellen Quotes
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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The book is a private confessional form that provides a 'point of view.'
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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it revive - and grow. We know it cannot die - because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise - an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
