Ian Mckellen Quotes
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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We had some great individual performances but one of the things we learnt from the English is how to put a game together. They played as a team for the whole five days all series...
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
