Ian Mckellen Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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I like sleeping a lot.
