Ian Mckellen Quotes
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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Movies don't have borders.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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Every body that is moved continues to move so long as the impression of the force of its mover is retained in it, therefore the movement of this wing with violence... will come to move the whole bird with it until the impetus of the moved air has been consumed.
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Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
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For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
