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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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.
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Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
