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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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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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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The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.
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The meaning of religious truth is hope.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
