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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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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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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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to self-regulation in that it is the process of identifying, among other things, our values.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
