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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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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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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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
