Ian Mckellen Quotes

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

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• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

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• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

  

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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

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• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
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• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
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• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

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• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
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• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

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• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

  

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• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
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• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
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• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

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• I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

  

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• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

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• The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

  

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• It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
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• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • Career
  • Acting