Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
